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PPIA innovates as it heads to its 40th year
The Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute (JSI) is entering its 40th year after a summer of adjustment and...
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The Next Administration: Post-Election Recap
Free and open to the public. Click here to view on YouTube.
Associate Dean Luke Shaefer will moderate a conversation with Ford School faculty...
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Free speech. The exchange of ideas. Fair and free elections. Democratic institutions. These are fundamental aspects of our democracy, and they require work, reform, and commitment to uphold them. Our community is engaged deeply in the issues of the...
Our faculty think, speak out, and teach about structural inequality–about differential outcomes and experiences for Black people and other marginalized populations in education, policing, health, economics, finance, and other key...
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Betsey Stevenson testified in September on the consequences of COVID-19 fiscal inaction at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, and in October to the CBO Panel of Economic Advisers.
Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics
Stevenson is an influential commentator on the labor market and on the impact of public policies on families. You can read her recent perspectives in the New Yorker, NPR, Washington Post, the New York Times, and in a Brookings Institution essay on the impact of COVID-19 on labor market outcomes, particularly for women.
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