Natasha Pilkauskas, associate professor of public policy at the Ford School, is one of 64 experts who were inducted into the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) this year. Approved by the NASI Board of Directors last week, Pilkauskas is...

As President Trump rolls out slews of executive orders a day, news outlets are wondering how far Trump plans to stretch his power. Speaking with NPR, the Ford School's Kenneth Lowande offered his opinion on the multitude of executive actions taking...

Rx Kids, co-directed by the Ford School's Luke Shaefer, celebrated it one-year anniversary at the end of January. The program has given access to $6M in cash support for over 1,300 Flint families with pregnant mothers and babies in their first years...

The Ford School's Betsey Stevenson spoke with Bloomberg following a recent email from the Trump administration encouraging many federal employees to resign. Some have called the offer a "buyout" though Stevenson has noted this is not the case. “If...

The Ford School's Brian Jacob recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal regarding his 2023 research survey on the use of technology in classrooms. Jacob's survey was conducted among 1,000 educators and showed technology is used for completing...

The Ford School's economics professor Betsey Stevenson has been discussing her views about the state of the economy to a wide variety of news outlets. Stevenson has looked at tariff increases, the Fed's response to government actions, worker wages,...

As 2025 began with an act of domestic terrorism, many news outlets have turned to the Ford School's Javed Ali for insights on the matter. Ali spoke with BBC News, MSNBC, and WXYZ, to name a few, about the Jihadist-inspired attack in New Orleans on...