The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC) is nearing the end of its work to draft new maps in an effort to end partisan gerrymandering.
The mission was straightforward—use an independent commission instead of the state...
“The federal (infrastructure) funding is probably a once-in-a-lifetime lifeline, and it certainly is going to move the needle. But Michiganders need to understand that we have a long-term challenge. This federal money will last for a while, it will...
After months of haggling and horse-trading, Congress has passed—and President Joe Biden is poised to sign—a more than $1 trillion infrastructure bill. The law will usher in long-sought investment in roads, rail, bridges, broadband, the power grid...
The two-week COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, ended today with an agreement among nearly 200 nations aimed at intensifying global efforts to fight climate change and to aid vulnerable nations, while leaving some crucial questions...
A new bipartisan bill aims to ensure that political donors-turned-ambassadors are qualified for the job.
Speaking to The Detroit News, Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky said, “There were some really embarrassing nominations during the previous...
The International Institute is delighted to announce that Ford School Professor Ann Chih Lin has been appointed director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, effective November 1, 2021. The Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) was...
On November 3, the University of Michigan community gathered to listen to Ford School professors Earl Lewis and John Ayanian deliver their Distinguished University Professorship lectures. In her opening remarks, Provost Susan Collins said,...
Policy Brief from the University of Michigan’s Education Policy Initiative outlines a vision for high-quality universal preschool in the state of Washington
High-quality preschool helps prepare children for kindergarten and promotes their...
Justin Wolfers says that increasing vaccination rates could help solve inflation and supply chain issues.
“One of the most important things we can do in fact is vaccinating the globe. When people talk about inflation, we’ll talk about supply...
Abdul El-Sayed, Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence, recently sat down with Stateside to discuss the climate crisis. He reflected on the importance of young people in the movement.
"When we talk about young people and we look at their...
On election security as a national security issue
Javed Ali and a bipartisan group of former national security officials recently co-signed a letter urging Congress to take more action against the security threat of election...
Betsy Stevenson weighed in on labor market recovery, the job market, the tampon tax, and more.
On labor market recovery
While most of the United States seems to be recovering from the worst parts of the pandemic, the job crisis it caused is...
Jennifer Haverkamp sat down with Brazilian daily Folha de S.Paulo in a lengthy interview to unpack international commitments to climate reform.
In an assessment of the COP26, she said, "It's valuable to see how many world leaders went to the...
"We are generally very bad at knowing which technologies are going to get cheaper and which technologies are not," Catherine Hausman told Inside Climate News, in response to President Biden's plan for getting to net-zero emissions by 2050. The plan...
In the debate over the expanded Child Tax Credit, economists disagree on how many parents will leave the labor force. Katherine Michelmore speaks to the Washington Post about her research and why previous estimates are too high.
"We’ve since done...
Earl Lewis recently spoke to MLive about the growing number of participants identifying as ‘multiracial’ in the 2020 Census.
“In a lot of ways, the current Census data are catching up with human behavior that went unnoticed in previous...
Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement Luke Shaefer delivered the inaugural Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professorship in Social Policy and Social Justice Lecture. Shaefer, who also serves as faculty director of Poverty Solutions, is the first...
At the Michigan Union on Friday, November 5, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill repealing the 6 percent use tax on feminine hygiene products. Whitmer was joined by Senator Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids), faculty from Michigan Medicine and the...
Natasha Pilkauskas, co-author of the policy brief “Receipt and Usage of Child Tax Credit Payments among Low-Income Families: What We Know,” finds the Child Tax Credit helps low-income families with the basics.
"Really, they're telling us they're...
Speaking with MLive, Shobita Parthasarathy observed the complexities behind vaccine hesitancy. “We’re letting social institutions, government institutions off the hook the more that we focus on the individual as the source of the hesitancy,” she...
With the international community getting behind climate goals at the COP26 summit this week in Glasgow, Barry Rabe weighed in on what that means in the U.S. context.
Appearing on The Heat with Anand Naidoo on CGTN America, Rabe expressed doubts...
Voter turnout among University of Michigan college students jumped to 78% in the 2020 election, according to a report released by the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts University.
Up 18 percentage points from 60% in 2016, U-M...
A grant from the Ford Foundation will facilitate consultation, research, and implementation solutions with community organizations to promote science and technology for the public good.
Technology has the power to transform lives for the better...
University of Michigan graduate students and their faculty adviser are attending the two-week COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. The students will observe the negotiations, attend side events and interact with various experts. U-M has sent...
Betsy Stevenson observed key economic indicators and the continuing effects of COVID-19 this week.
At Wednesday’s CNBC Workforce Executive Council Summit, she said, “People seem to be fed up and leaving work...There are a lot of different things...
In an updated edition of Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948-2020, economists Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano, and Thomas Piketty map variations in the determinants of voting to better understand the...
Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act, legislation which Barros developed as a 2018 intern with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI)....
Jean Sherman got a call from a friend during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic telling her about a church nearby where she could get the vaccine.
The Detroit resident also found out that the Historic King Solomon Baptist Church helped people...
The 2021-22 academic year brings the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions initiative’s sixth round of faculty grants to support research on ways to prevent and alleviate poverty.
Research supported by Poverty Solutions has provided new...
The Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) recognized John Ayanian for his remarkable dedication and contributions to the scientific research careers of their students, fellows, and trainees with the Distinguished Clinical and...
