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Dominguez talks China in Marketplace story comparing global economy today to 1993

Apr 22, 2015

Kathryn Dominguez lent her expertise in international financial markets to American Public Media’s Marketplace yesterday. In “Trade Agreement, then and now,” reporter Nancy Marshall-Genzer compared today’s global economy to the economy in 1993, the...

Ciorciari awarded Carnegie Fellowship to examine shared-sovereignty agreements

Apr 22, 2015

This morning, in advertisements in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle of Philanthropy, New York Review of Books, and other print and online publications, the Carnegie Corporation of New...

Two Ford School students win 2015 Udall Foundation Native American Congressional Internships

Apr 21, 2015

Michon Johnson The Udall Foundation recently announced that 12 students from 11 tribes and 10 universities have been selected as 2015 Native American Congressional Interns. They were selected by an independent review...

State & Hill

BA alum tackles preventable deaths in India, Uganda through social enterprise Sundara

Apr 21, 2015

By Mandira Banerjee for Global Michigan and Michigan Today As Erin Zaikis (BA ’11) lay sick with dengue fever in a Thailand hospital in 2013, she had an epiphany. She wanted to dedicate her life to helping others. Confined to her hospital bed...

Michigan Radio interviews Kristin Seefeldt for "Up by your bootstraps," a State of Opportunity special

Apr 15, 2015

In “Up by your bootstraps,” a State of Opportunity special that aired today on Michigan Radio, Sarah Alvarez interviews Kristin Seefeldt about “policymaking by anecdote.” “Seefeldt says the number-one myth about poverty she sees making its way into...

Photo of Kristin Seefeldt seated and working at a computer in her office

Dean Yang’s research featured in HuffPo story about increased access to banking in developing economies

Apr 15, 2015

Dean Yang’s research is featured in “More people in the developing world are getting bank accounts, but there’s an asterisk on that progress,” an article by Jonathan Cohn in today’s Huffington Post. Cohn is referring to a new report from the World...

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Inside Philanthropy profiles Russell Sage Foundation’s crucial role in "moving inequality to the center of politics and policy”

Apr 15, 2015

“The [Russell Sage Foundation’s] research has played a crucial, if subtle role in moving inequality to the center of politics and policy in recent years” writes David Callahan for Inside Philanthropy. The article, “Inside the Russell Sage...

State & Hill

Class Notes

Apr 15, 2015

Jim Baker (MPA ’61) spent much of his career in developing countries and retired in 2006. His wife Fran has been a real estate agent for more than 30 years and will retire soon. They have been living in Potomac, MD and will relocate to Wilmington,...

Dean Yang speaks with PBS News Hour about new migrant remittance bill

Apr 13, 2015

Laura Santhanam’s PBS News Hour story, “How migrants control one of the world’s most powerful economic engines,” describes a bill before Congress that seeks to fine migrants who attempt to send remittances—financial gifts that support loved ones...

Levitsky quoted in IBT article, shares insight on controversial Ukrainian bill

Apr 13, 2015

Mel Levitsky was quoted in an International Business Times story, “Ukraine’s Controversial Bill Recognizing WWII-Era Partisans Draws Harsh Criticism From Russians,” about a contentious Ukrainian bill passed in parliament last week. The bill, led by...

New York Review of Books features Sheldon Danziger’s Legacies of the War on Poverty

Apr 7, 2015

This April, Christopher Jencks reviews Sheldon Danziger’s Legacies of the War on Poverty (Russell Sage, 2013) in a two-part series for The New York Review of Books. Jencks says Legacies’ chapters are “packed with evidence, make judicious judgments,...

WGPP hosts five powerhouse female policymakers for discussion on women in elected office

Apr 7, 2015

Women and Gender in Public Policy (WGPP – pronounced “whip”), a student organization at the Ford School, recently hosted five of Michigan’s leading female policymakers for a discussion on women in elected office. The April 2nd event was covered by...

Pictured (L-R): U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell (MI-12), former Michigan Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer (D-East Lansing), Chairwoman of the U-M Board of Regents Kathy White (D-Ann Arbor); State Representative Gretchen Driskell (D-Saline), and State Representative Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit)

In the Media

Steyer Targets GOP 'Climate Deniers'

Apr 6, 2015 US News

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Applied Policy Seminar project cited in MLive story on economic potential of Kalamazoo River

Apr 6, 2015

An MLive story published this weekend on the economic potential of the long-polluted Kalamazoo River cited the work of a six-member team in Elisabeth Gerber’s 2012 Applied Policy Seminar (APS) course, now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or...

Wolfers takes aim at recent study claiming parenting time doesn’t matter

Apr 2, 2015

In his latest New York Times Upshot editorial, Justin Wolfers took aim at a recent study on parenting time by mothers that has garnered widespread national media coverage. The study, “Does the Amount of Time Mothers Spend With Children or...

Ford School students host annual US-Canada conference

Mar 31, 2015

The 6th annual Ford+SPPG Conference took place earlier this month at Joan and Sanford Weill Hall in Ann Arbor. The event brings together MPP candidates from the Ford School and the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance...

Erin Flores featured in The University Record’s faculty/staff spotlight

Mar 31, 2015

Photo by Rensuchan PhotographyErin Flores, an administrative assistant in the Ford School’s Communications and Outreach Department, is featured in The University Record’s March 30 faculty/staff spotlight.“Administrative assistant finds creative...

Robin Jacob quoted in Washington Post story

Mar 30, 2015

A story in The Washington Post, “Can volunteers help kids read more proficiently? New research says yes,” includes quotes from Robin Jacob. “Bringing volunteer programs to scale is often quite difficult, so that’s really the exciting thing about the...

In the Media

Alarm Raised by Plan to Ease Credit Norms on U.S. Parent Loans

Mar 27, 2015 Bloomberg News

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Shaefer cited in New York Times op-ed exploring severity of poverty in U.S.

Mar 27, 2015

Luke Shaefer was among a handful of national experts cited in a New York Times online op-ed exploring the current state of poverty and inequality in the United States. In “How Poor Are the Poor?,” published Wednesday, columnist Thomas B. Edsall...

10 Fordies make list of 2015 Presidential Management Fellows program finalists

Mar 26, 2015

Nine current Ford School students and one recent graduate have made the list of finalists for the 2015 Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program, a two-year post-graduate training and development program facilitated by a U.S. government...

In the Media

Another blast from the past -- via Steve Goddard

Mar 25, 2015 Antigreen Blog

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In the Media

More than 1/3 of Arizona state budget comes from Uncle Sam

Mar 24, 2015 Phoenix Business Journal

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Four Ford School faculty members nominated by students for this year’s Golden Apple Award

Mar 23, 2015

Ford School professors John Ciorciari, Yazier Henry, Valenta Kabo, and Megan Tompkins-Stange were nominated for the University of Michigan’s Golden Apple Award. The award recognizes outstanding university teaching, and is the only teaching award in...

News

Hausman examines economic impacts of recent shale gas boom in Brookings paper

Mar 23, 2015

Welfare and distributional implications of shale gas, a paper by Catie Hausman, provides the first estimates of broad-scale welfare and distributional implications of the recent shale gas boom. The report, coauthored with U-M economics professor...

CLOSUP’s Ivacko talks MPPS and ethics with Michigan Radio’s Stateside

Mar 23, 2015

The latest Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS) reveals how local leaders feel about the need for ethics reform in the Great Lakes State. Tom Ivacko (MPA '93), program manager of the Ford School’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP),...

“We’re frighteningly in the dark about student debt” writes Dynarski for The New York Times

Mar 21, 2015

The United States government has a portfolio of roughly $1 trillion in student loans, many of which appear to be troubled writes Susan Dynarski in the business section of the Sunday New York Times. Dynarski’s column, “We’re frighteningly in the dark...

In the Media

FEMA to States: No Climate Planning, No Money

Mar 18, 2015 Inside Climate News

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Microfinance study: Yang finds people may give more generously when they can choose what their dollars purchase

Mar 17, 2015

At a microfinance bank in Maputo, Mozambique, Dean Yang and colleagues engaged clients in a lab-in-the-field experiment with interesting implications for those who care about increasing the number and level of remittances, the financial...

In the Media

Birth of a Tax Loophole

Mar 16, 2015 The Atlantic

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