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Hausman in VoxEU on energy

Jun 30, 2014
"Estimating the economic value of energy transmission is difficult," writes Catherine Hausman in a June 16 article for VoxEU, a Centre for Economic Policy Research publication funded by the European Union that promotes research-based policy analysis...

Alum announces new UN strategy for fuel, energy

Jun 30, 2014
On May 13, Steven T. Corliss (MPP/JD '88) formally announced the UN Refugee Agency's Safe Access to Fuel and Energy (SAFE) strategy, a global initiative that will help meet the energy needs of refugees living in camps in Africa, Asia, and the Middle...

Internship Field Report: Michele Majors @ UNHCR, Geneva

Jun 30, 2014
An email interview with Michele Majors, interning with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland.Review more internship field reports from Ford School students serving organizations around the world. Q. What do you love...

Wealth inequality doubles among US households

Jun 27, 2014
By Diane SwanbrowWealth inequality among U.S. households roughly doubled between 2003 and 2013, according to a new analysis by University of Michigan researchers."American families experienced significant losses in wealth during the Great Recession,...

Internship field report: DuoDuo Zhang @ Washington, DC

Jun 25, 2014
"Hello. Congressional Management Foundation….How may I help you?"So begins DuoDuo (Doris) Zhang's days as a research assistant at the DC-based Congressional Management Foundation (CMF), which works to enhance interactions between Congressional...
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Alumni Board calls for Staebler Service Award nominations

Jun 25, 2014
The Ford School Alumni Board seeks nominations for the Neil Staebler Distinguished Service Award. The Staebler Award is a program of the Neil Staebler Fund for Political Education at the Ford School. The Staebler Fund was established in 1987 to...

Chamberlin on Michigan's lax charter school laws

Jun 23, 2014
"In September 2005, Emma Street Holdings bought property on Sibley road in Huron Township for $375,000. Six days later, Emma Street sold the parcel to Summit Academy North, a charter school, for $425,000." So begins Jennifer Dixon's Detroit Free...

Stevenson speaks at White House Summit on Working Families

Jun 23, 2014
Betsey Stevenson, a member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, will offer a plenary speech during the June 23 White House Summit on Working Families in Washington, DC. Her topic: A 21st century economy that works for businesses and...

Ford School mourns the loss of Kenneth Furlough

Jun 20, 2014
Kenneth Furlough, who began his MPP studies at the Ford School in the fall of 2013, passed away early last week from hypertensive heart disease. Kenneth was a warm, kind, gregarious person, with a lasting commitment to public policy. The Ford School...

NY Times publishes "answer on a postcard"

Jun 19, 2014
Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo) have proposed a bipartisan bill to dramatically simplify the college financial aid form. They announced their proposal in the op-ed column, "An Answer on a Postcard," published by The New...

"No legitimate, fact-based reason" to deny gay marriage

Jun 18, 2014
On June 17, both MLive and the Detroit Free Press reported on amicus briefs filed with the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (covering appeals from Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee) in Michigan's landmark gay marriage case.Amicus briefs were...

The Guardian features Courant study: Top U's pay too much

Jun 17, 2014
"Top universities are paying too much for scores of academic journals provided by major publishing companies," writes Ian Sample, science editor of The Guardian, in the June 16 article, "Universities 'get poor value' from academic journal-publishing...

Obama EO on student loan relief doesn't go far enough

Jun 16, 2014
In her Economic View "Finding Shock Absorbers for Student Debt," published June 15 in the Sunday business section of The New York Times, Susan Dynarski explains why President Obama's recent executive order aimed at easing the debt burden for...

Student loan market regulation, the urgency of reform

Jun 13, 2014
"Remember the Problems with Mortgage Defaults? They're Coming Back with Student Loans," writes Professor Susan Dynarski in The Upshot, The New York Times' curated blog on politics, policy, and economics. "The parallels with the mortgage crisis are...

Dr. Schwarz speaks with Stateside on care of veterans

Jun 13, 2014
Cynthia Canty of Stateside, a Michigan Radio program, interviewed Dr. John J.H. "Joe" Schwarz, a physician and former Republican Congressman, about the Veterans Affairs Administration audit that flagged three Michigan VA medical care facilities—in...

The Atlantic cites Jacob's teacher tenure study

Jun 12, 2014
As a California judge rules that the state's teacher tenure system is disproportionately harmful to children from low-income families, Dana Goldstein explores the origins and impacts of the state's teacher tenure system—both positive and negative—in...

Greetings from the Dean

Jun 11, 2014
Many of you will remember Ned Gramlich, who was a beloved faculty member at the Ford School for three decades. Last week, as part of our centennial celebrations, we honored Ned with a day-long conference hosted at the Federal Reserve Board...

One in three say no solid evidence of global warming

Jun 11, 2014
By Greta GuestWhile a majority of Americans still believe that global warming is occurring, the cold and snowy winter of 2014 created more disbelievers, according to a newly released survey by the National Surveys on Energy and Environment. The...

Read 'the Ford School feed'

Jun 11, 2014
The latest edition of the Ford School feed, an email news source for alumni and friends of the school, is now available.This summer edition: invites alumni and friends to RSVP for the Centennial Reunion in the fall and Worldwide Ford School Spirit...

Money magazine interviews Wolfers on money and happiness

Jun 10, 2014
In the June 9 Money magazine article, "Does Money Buy Happiness," Susie Poppick interviews Justin Wolfers on the research he and Betsey Stevenson have done to illuminate the complex relationship between money and happiness.Wolfers discusses the...

Better schools, better learning?

Jun 10, 2014
"Billions of dollars are spent annually to construct new schools, and to repair and upgrade existing ones," says Isaac McFarlin, a research scientist at the Ford School. "In 2008 alone, state and local governments spent more than $66 billion to...

"Ned was right" conference at the Fed

Jun 10, 2014
Over three decades of service, Founding Dean Ned Gramlich helped shape the Ford School's mission and vision, and served as an exemplar of what it means to be a world-class policy professor. He conducted extensive and widely-respected research, both...