After five years of steady statewide improvement, fewer Michigan communities report that they are better able to meet their fiscal needs this year.A University of Michigan survey polled top elected and appointed officials in the state's 1,856 units...
Jill Rosenfeld (BA '18), a University of Michigan sophomore who will join the Ford School as a bachelor's student this fall, is submitting this field report from her summer 2016 internship at the Violence Policy Center in Washington, D.C.This summer...
Luz Viviana Meza (MPP '17) is submitting this field report from her summer 2016 internship at the City of Detroit mayor's office, where she works with the Department of Immigrant Affairs and the Department of Neighborhoods (District 6).
As a...
Kenneth Fennell (MPP '17) is submitting this field report from his summer 2016 internship at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Jakarta, Indonesia.I was at a Buka Puasa, a Ramadan fast-breaking meal, with my Indonesian colleagues sharing nasi...
The Economist cites $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, in the story “Poverty in America: No money no love,” which calls on today’s Presidential candidates to address endemic poverty.$2.00 a Day, a recently released book by Luke...
The Ford School congratulates alum and 2015 Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence Dr. Ruth C. Browne (MPP/MPH '83) on her new job.In an August 16, 2016 press release, Browne was announced as president and chief executive officer of the Ronald...
Susan Dynarski, writing for The New York Times, explains “Why American schools are even more unequal than we thought.” In the piece, Dynarski describes a new measure of economic hardship—one that reveals an even more troubling picture of the...
An article by Bob Axelrod and Larissa Forster (ARTIS Research), "How Historical Analogies in Newspapers of Five Countries Make Sense of Major Events: 9/11, Mumbai and Tahrir Square," has been published by the journal Research in Economics....
In “Student test scores: How the sausage is made and why you should care,” Brian Jacob describes how student ability is measured; how various test makers analyze and report student performance; and why this matters for policymakers and practitioners...
As the Republican Party announces regulatory alternatives to the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, which was devised to reform Wall Street, protect consumers, and prevent financial collapse, Marketplace interviews some of the key architects of Dodd-Frank for...
“In less than a year, the Aliso Canyon [natural gas] facility leaked methane equal to about four million metric tons of CO2, the greenhouse gas equivalent of driving over 800,000 cars in a year,” writes Catherine Hausman for The Conversation...
Jonathan Cohn, senior national correspondent for the Huffington Post, explores how America’s poor measure up by international standards in, “Yet another conservative argument about poverty appears to be wrong.”The piece explores whether America’s...
Kristin Seefeldt’s new book, Abandoned families: Social isolation in the 21st century, is set to release on December 25, 2016.
Published by the Russell Sage Foundation, the book is described as “a timely, on-the-ground assessment of hardship in...
Sarah Mills spoke with the Christian Science Monitor about results from the latest National Survey on Energy and Environment (NSEE), which found that only 15 percent of Americans now deny that there is solid evidence of climate change, in contrast...
“Investing in Schools: Capital Spending, Facility Conditions, and Student Achievement” a journal article by Paco Martorell, Kevin Stange, and Isaac McFarlin, has been published in the August 2016 edition of the Journal of Public...
Michelle Rubin (MPP '17) submits this field report from her summer 2016 internship at Global Detroit.
I am just wrapping up and reflecting on my ten-week summer internship with Global Detroit. Global Detroit is a non-profit that aims to...
Tachana Joseph (MPP '17) is submitting this field report from her summer 2016 internship at Verizon in Washington, DC, where she works as a federal regulatory intern.This summer, I was blessed with the opportunity to work for Verizon as a federal...
Farah Mandich (MPP ’17) is submitting this field report from her summer 2016 internship at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, United Kingdom, where she worked in the Office of the U.S. executive director. Hello from...
“Can War Foster Cooperation?” Michal Bauer, Christopher Blattman, Julie Chytilová, Joseph Henrich, Edward Miguel and Tamar Mitts pose this question in the summer 2016 volume of The Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Introduction
Warfare leaves...
The Ford School and University of Michigan recently hosted the 10th biennial Graduate Horizons conference for American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian students.View the photo album here.The four-day conference, held July 9 - 12 on the...
Reynolds Farley is quoted in a Bridge Magazine piece, reprinted in today's Detroit Free Press, on “Black and white optimism on Detroit-area race relations.” The piece reports on a recent poll by the Detroit Journalism Cooperative that collected...
John Z. Ayanian, director of the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, explores whether Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton’s health care proposals might work in a July 27 contribution to The...
Four Fordie MPPs are spending this summer interning at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in the agency’s headquarters location in Washington, DC. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO's mandate is to serve as the...
Maha Arshad (MPP '17) submits this internship field report from her summer 2016 service with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) in College Park, Maryland.Being in the DC area with driven...
Dr. John J.H. (Joe) Schwarz spoke with Stateside, a Michigan Radio program, about “Governing or fundraising: What’s the duty of elected officials?”Schwarz, a former U.S. congressman (R-MI) and longtime policymaker and political actor, is a lecturer...
Recent research by Kevin Stange, which evaluates a multi-state compact that allows nurses to easily practice across state borders, is featured in The Wall Street Journal, the Brookings Institution’s Hutchins Roundup, and the Washington Center for...
In 2004, the Ford School’s newly launched Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) sponsored its first internship partnership with the City of Ann Arbor administrator’s office. “Part of the center’s mission is to help bring the resources...
This internship field report is submitted by Maisy Sylvan (BA '17), who served Boston City Council President Michelle Wu.Q. Where are you interning and how are you liking it?Sylvan. This summer, I’m interning under Boston City Council President...
In 2010, Carl Simon and George Kaplan received funding from the National Institutes of Health to build an interdisciplinary network of scientists to look at a very important problem, socioeconomic health disparities, viewed as a complex system. “We...
