The Center on Finance, Law & Policy at the University of Michigan is an interdisciplinary research center which draws together faculty and students from more than a dozen of Michigan’s nineteen schools and colleges to work on a broad range of...

When 15 public policy undergraduates touched down in Brussels, Belgium in March, they knew they were visiting Europe’s capital at a pivotal...

In March, CLOSUP released its second annual report analyzing the fiscal health of local Michigan governments. Using financial data reported to the State of Michigan in 2023, the researchers developed a set of indicators to look at cash, budgetary,...

Yousif Hassan, assistant professor at the Ford School of Public Policy and the School of Information, has been awarded funding from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) for a new project Defining and Measuring the...

Justin Wolfers, professor at the Ford School, told CNBC that Trump's proposed tariff plan is going to impact American consumers in more ways than just washing machines. "It's not just washing machines by the way, if you put it aside, you put a...

"I would be surprised if we don't see a Teamsters endorsement of Kamala Harris, but I think it's also worth noting how, you know, tough they're being about say, 'you don't get it for free, we're making sure that you're out there representing the...

Justin Wolfers, professor at the Ford School, speaking with USA Today noted that Trump's plan for the economy is not a true policy. "Get rid of inflation' is not a policy... Saying 'I will ask people for their ideas about how to reduce inflation,'...

"We are living through a massive assault on basic premises of our constitutional system" said Ford School Professor Samuel Bagenstos, in a question-and-answer article for The New Yorker magazine. He said, "I really hate the significance that’s being...

Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked with ABC News about Israel's recent strike in Yemen. He said, "Israel is now talking on for the most part the totality or most of the totality of the Iran backed axis of resistance groups, so with Hezbollah...

Javed Ali, Ford School professor talked with CBC news about "despite all the pounding that Hezbollah has taken over the couple few weeks," with their leadership  gone, "the group still possesses tens of thousands of fighters probably a couple...