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Taking bold action toward environmental justice

Jan 29, 2025

A week after the University of Michigan celebrated the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) honored his work at its own event—a panel discussion focused on keeping environmental justice at the...

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Detroit’s reparations task force's slow pace is not a bad thing - Ostfeld

Dec 20, 2024

Ford school professor Mara Ostfeld wrote with coauthors Kamri Hudgins, Erykah Noelle Benson, and Vincent Hutchings, in The Conversation about delays in the release of the Detroit Reparations Task Force report. She explains why it has been difficult...

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Tragically underrated, Stevenson on US Economy in 2024

Dec 31, 2024 Marketplace

Betsey Stevenson, professor at the Ford School, chose "Tragically underrated" as a phrase to be the economist's word of the year. She describes labor force participation, inflation-adjusted wages and more to show how the US economy is the strongest...

Smart from the Start: Closing Early Opportunity Gaps with Strategic Early Learning Investments

Apr 9, 2025, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Walter and Leonore Annenberg Auditorium (Room 1120) Joan and Sanford Weill Hall

The Ford School's Karl and Martha Kohn Professor of Social Policy, Christina Weiland, will deliver her Koh lecture reflecting on her work on early childhood interventions and public policies on children’s development, especially on children from families with low incomes.

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Stevenson on Biden's warning of an oligarchy forming in America

Jan 17, 2025 MSNBC

Betsey Stevenson, Ford School professor and economist, comments on a possible American oligarchy. She says we may be "moving to a world where the people who have the most money want to rewrite the rules in their favor," a situation that would...

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Ali on Israel-Hamas hostage exchange

Jan 19, 2025 ABC

Javed Ali, Ford School Professor and former NSC Director for Counterterrorism, says "we will just have to wait and see how things play out" with Israel and Hamas interpreting the evolving situation and watch "how both sides stick to the terms of the...

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Hanson talks economic consequences of second Trump administration

Jan 19, 2025 Folha do Brasil

Jonathan Hanson, Ford School professor, talked with Folha do Brasil about the impacts of the new Trump administration. He says that "A lot of people have been working on Trump's plans for 2025 in the four years he has been out of...

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Ali on implementation of ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas

Jan 17, 2025 ABC

"Now the really hard part is going to start with the implementation of phase one" of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas says Javed Ali, Ford School professor and Former National Security Council Senior Director for...

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Watch What Consumers Do, Not How They Feel - Stevenson

Jan 15, 2025

Ford School professor of public policy and economics Betsey Stevenson writes in Bloomberg about the relationship or lack of relationship between consumer sentiment and economic performance. Instead, she says, we should focus "on consumers' ability...

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How federal employee cuts are impacting national security - Ali

Feb 5, 2025 The Cipher Brief

Speaking with The Cipher Brief, the Ford School's Javed Ali stated national security agencies are witnessing and "unprecedented moment" due to federal job cuts in civil service. Ali noted, "I can't remember a time when the bureau was under this much...

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