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        The reality of DOGE's mediocre savings - Stevenson

        Feb 25, 2025
        The Ford School's Betsey Stevenson recently spoke with Bloomberg, highlighting the false assertions of government saving increases made by DOGE. DOGE claims it has saved the government around $55 billion in spending through a wave of federal firings...
        Betsey Stevenson
        In the Media

        Shaefer's Rx Kids program set to expand to Kalamazoo

        Feb 23, 2025 WOOD
        Following huge success in its first year, the child healthcare support program Rx Kids is set to expand from Flint into Kalamazoo. Luke Shaefer, professor at the Ford School and the program's co-director stated, "We see families reporting that they...
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        ‘Music is about people — it’s not about music’

        Feb 21, 2025
        ‘Like a big gumbo pot’The way Branford Marsalis sees it, the world needs social activists and artists. Yet the Grammy-winning saxophonist said he has a hard time doing both.“Playing music is so hard — I don’t really have time for (activism),”...
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        Atran on the future of Gaza, from Gazans

        Feb 19, 2025
        In a new article published in Foreign Affairs, Scott Atran and co-author Ángel Gómez shine a light on Gazans’ views, highlighting a complicated picture of postwar Gaza. Support for Hamas among Gazans has declined, however alternatives to the group’s...
        Scott Atran
        In the Media

        Behind the scenes of the unemployment rate - Stevenson

        Feb 18, 2025 Marketplace
        The Ford School's Betsey Stevenson spoke with Marketplace on the historically low unemployment rate. Stevenson argued it’s not only a hot labor market that can lead to super-low unemployment: “A low unemployment rate could be associated with a very...
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        In the Media

        Bagenstos asserts Michigan lawmakers should uphold court orders

        Feb 18, 2025 Detroit Metro Times
        “The Michigan Supreme Court enforced a basic democratic principle — that the people have a reserved power to vote on an initiative that qualifies for the ballot if the Legislature will not let it go into effect,” the Ford School's Sam Bagenstos...
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        In the Media

        Bednar says Michigan politics reflect national trends

        Feb 18, 2025 Michigan Advance
        Michigan Advance has observed ways in which political trends and ideologies of Michiganders are representative of the broader national population. “It’s not just that we’re a swing state, but we’re kind of a microcosm of the country and our politics...
        Jenna Bednar
        In the Media

        How government may use AI to determine spending cuts - Moynihan

        Feb 18, 2025 Axios
        With the emergence of AI as one of the largest technological innovations of the decade, scholars suspect AI will soon be used by the government to determine where to cut funding. "Everyone is excited about the use of AI, and over time it will...
        Don Moynihan
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        Shaefer's Rx Kids program set to expand to the Upper Penninsula

        Feb 14, 2025
        Rx Kids, the nation’s first-ever citywide cash prescription program for pregnant women and babies, today announced the program’s launch into communities in the Eastern Upper Peninsula (UP). The UP expansion of Rx Kids is made possible by an...
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        In the Media

        Moynihan claims Trump's efforts to dismantle civil service are illegal

        Feb 14, 2025 The Washington Post
        The Washington Post reviewed the Trump administration's recent acts to cut civil servant employees and terminate federal agency operations. Donald Moynihan, a professor at the Ford School, said “such a power would be too great in the hands of any...
        Don Moynihan
        Alumni spotlight

        Q&A: Kevin Naud (MPP '21) helps to develop workforce in Detroit

        Feb 14, 2025
        While Kevin Naud was born and raised in Ann Arbor, the Ford School alumnus’ offspring will be born and raised in Detroit.Naud, who graduated with a Master’s of Public Policy degree in 2021, and his wife are expecting their first child and just...
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        In the Media

        Moynihan on Trump challenge when firing federal employees

        Feb 13, 2025 The New York Times
        As President Trump sweeps the civil service workforce across federal agencies, there are some roadblocks he's set to encounter. Some laws existing to protect federal employees challenge the efforts of the administration. “Many of these systems have...
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