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Kary Moss on Detroit water shutoffs

Oct 22, 2014

Kary Moss speaks on the Detroit water shutoffs in Henry Gass’s “Do Detroit's water shutoffs violate international law? UN to investigate,” posted in the Christian Science Monitor on October 17. The United Nations visited Detroit last weekend to...

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Fewer Americans Think Global Warming Is Happening

Oct 21, 2014 Inside Science

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Michael Barr in WaPo on proliferation of rent-to-own retailers and their impact on the working poor

Oct 21, 2014

Michael Barr was quoted in a Washington Post news feature about the boom of the rent-to-own retail industry since the Great Recession. The article, “Rental America: Why the poor pay $4,150 for a $1,500 sofa,” examines the impact these retailers have...

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Atran speaks with “On Being” about the search for identity among youth in extremist cultures

Oct 20, 2014

Scott Atran discusses “the human dynamics of what we analyze as ‘breeding grounds for terrorism’” in “Hopes and Dreams in a World of Fear,” the October 16 episode of On Being with Krista Tippett. Atran contends that the fight for the world lies in...

Read 'the Ford School feed'

Oct 17, 2014

The latest edition of the Ford School feed, an email news source for alumni and friends of the school, arrived in inboxes this week.This fall edition:Reminds alumni and friends to RSVP for the Centennial Reunion, Oct. 31 – Nov . 1, which will...

Mainstream economists express skepticism about Piketty

Oct 17, 2014

Following a University of Chicago Economic Experts panel on the work of Thomas Piketty, Justin Wolfers pens New York Times Upshot column, “Fellow Economists Express Skepticism about Thomas Piketty.”“There’s no doubt that Thomas Piketty has...

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Patrick Anderson to receive 2014 Neil Staebler Distinguished Service Award

Oct 15, 2014

The Ford School Alumni Board is pleased to announce that Patrick Anderson (MPP ‘83) is the recipient of the 2014 Neil Staebler Distinguished Service Award. "Patrick has a long record of connecting sound analysis to the policy-making process,...

Self-nominations now being accepted for Ford School Alumni Board

Oct 15, 2014

Ford School Alumni Board vice-chair, Peter Fritz, MPP/MBA '10, is organizing the 2014 Alumni Board elections. Alumni can vie for one of six open board seats by submitting a self-nomination. The Alumni Board supports the activities of the Ford School...

A note from Susan Collins

Oct 15, 2014

This letter originally appeared in the October 15, 2014 edition of our electronic newsletter, 'the ford school feed'. The culmination of our Centennial celebrations draws near. We expect over 150 alumni; many friends, former faculty, and...

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The multibillion dollar question: How to spend carbon revenues?

Oct 13, 2014 Energy Institute at HAAS

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The changing economics of nuclear power

Oct 9, 2014

Policy Points is a video series featuring short segments on current events or recent research by faculty from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. We encourage opinion leaders worldwide to use material from these videos or transcripts in...

Supreme Court boosts hopes for same-sex marriage says Moss

Oct 8, 2014

Kary Moss, who will be teaching at the Ford School this winter, speaks with the Detroit Free Press about the Supreme Court’s October 6 decision not to review appeals court rulings that have permitted same-sex marriage in five states. “High Court’s...

Matthew Davis in Freep on Michigan Ebola worries

Oct 7, 2014

“Michigan health care professionals are ready to deal with the threat of the Ebola virus that is now on American shores,” report Cassandra Spratling and Eric D. Lawrence of the Detroit Free Press in the October 2 story, “Ebola’s U.S. arrival comes...

Marina v.N. Whitman in Freep on the new war on women

Oct 6, 2014

“I belong to the generation that came of age in the days before Roe vs. Wade,” writes Marina v.N. Whitman, “[my 15-year-old granddaughter] Lindsey and her friends have never heard of it.” But the war on women continues, Whitman points out in an...

Robert Axelrod to receive National Medal of Science

Oct 3, 2014

Of the 487 National Medals of Science bestowed since the award’s creation in 1959, less than two dozen have been offered to social and behavioral scientists. Robert Axelrod, the Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, will soon be...

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Melyvn Levitsky on Brazil's Presidential Election

Oct 3, 2014

Melvyn Levitsky analyzes the dynamics of Brazil’s voting populace in Christina Silva’s October 3 International Business Times piece, “Brazil Recession Drives Heated Election Between President Dilma Rousseff, Marina Silva.” Levitsky believes the...

Melyvn Levitsky on Brazil's Presidential Election

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For better or worse, Michigan's fiscal health post-recession

Oct 2, 2014

For the first time in six years, more Michigan communities report that they are better able to meet their fiscal needs this year than those who say they are less able to do...

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Education Policy Initiative studies Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction

Sep 26, 2014

A current Education Policy Initiative study is the topic of the September 26 MLive article by Roberto Acosta, “University of Michigan studies reading system that Flushing woman created; state officials interested in results.” The system is...

Helping working families will help the economy, says Stevenson

Sep 26, 2014

In a Q&A session with the New Republic, Betsey Stevenson discusses the impact new policies to support working families—such as paid sick and maternity leave, and universal pre-kindergarten—could have, both on families and the economy.Stevenson, who...

An ambassador’s analysis: Mel Levitsky on Brazil’s presidential election

Sep 25, 2014

Written for Global Michigan by William Foreman.Brazil’s presidential election on Oct. 5 could be tight. The incumbent is Dilma Rousseff, who has struggled to match the popularity of her charismatic predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.Nipping at...

Deliberative approach to governance of geoengineering research needed

Sep 24, 2014

In recent years, scientists, engineers, and policymakers have started asking governments to fund research into geoengineering technologies, which advocates say could result in a viable defense against climate change. However, due to its potential...

Slow down, get college ratings right, Dynarski tells White House

Sep 22, 2014

“The Obama administration seems intent on putting [college] ratings in place in short order,” writes Dynarski in “Why Federal College Ratings Won’t Rein In Tuition,” published in the Sunday, September 21 edition of The New York Times. “Along with...

“For inspiration in college ratings, look to health care,” says Dynarski

Sep 16, 2014

“The Obama administration is preparing a system of college ratings that it hopes will improve college quality and hold down tuition by arming consumers with better information,” writes Susan Dynarski in The Upshot, The New York Times’ curated blog...

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Forthcoming CLOSUP oil, gas tax study highlighted in U.S. News & World Report

Sep 15, 2014

“States are charging less and less to allow oil and gas companies to drill more and more,” writes Alan Neuhauser in the September 9, U.S. News & World Report article, “As oil and gas boom, energy taxes fall.” The piece refers to a forthcoming report...

Questions amid growing push for genetic screening for breast and ovarian cancer

Sep 15, 2014

“Before we get too excited about the possibility of giving everyone access to potentially life-saving information, we need to remember that the relationship between the BRCA genes and cancer incidence is complex and fraught with uncertainty,” writes...

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Mich. Pipeline Leak Is Political Fodder in Heated House Race

Sep 14, 2014 Inside Climate News

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Nuclear energy competition enhances safety, profitability?

Sep 12, 2014

After the widespread deregulation of U.S. energy in the late 1990s, in which half of American nuclear plants entered wholesale electricity markets for the first time, there were public fears that the new profit-mentality would degrade safety...

Congrats to Neel Hajra, next president, CEO of Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation

Sep 12, 2014

Neel Hajra, who regularly teaches “Policy and Management in the Nonprofit Sector” at the Ford School, has been named the next president and chief executive officer of the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation. He will begin his new post on January 1,...

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States lower energy taxes to attract business as production thrives

Sep 10, 2014 Bakken

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Wolfers picked for IMF "25 Brightest Young Economists" list

Sep 10, 2014

What does Justin Wolfers have in common with Esther Duflo, Roland Fryer, and Thomas Piketty?All just made the International Monetary Fund’s “25 Brightest Young Economists” list, published in the August 27 issue of IMF’s Finance and Development...

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