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In the Media

Stevenson discusses trade-off of ending unemployment benefits

Sep 14, 2021 Stateside

Millions have lost a source of income with the federal pandemic unemployment benefits ending. Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics, says that while some people will return to work, not all will. "I do not think that......

Key developments in counterterrorism and national security since 9/11

Sep 13, 2021 0:59:11

Panelists Michael Chertoff, Farah Pandith, and Eric Schmitt discuss 9/11 and how it has shaped our international affairs landscape over the past 20 years. September, 2021.

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Economic Development Seminar

Colonial institutions, marriage markets, and HIV: Evidence from Mozambique (practice job talk)

Sep 16, 2021, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Weill Hall 1230

This paper links Africa’s history to its HIV epidemic through colonial institutions’ lasting effects on marriage markets.

Info session: 2022 BA Global Engagement Seminar

Sep 22, 2021, 11:30 am-12:30 pm EDT

Weill Hall 1220

Please join us for an info session about PubPol 480, an advanced undergraduate seminar designed to challenge public policy majors to consider how policy issues are framed and addressed in a non-U.S. context.

News

Journalists discuss covering 9/11 and its aftermath

Sep 10, 2021

Highlights from “Covering 9/11: How the attacks shaped our world today,” a conversation with journalists Beth Fertig of WNYC (and U-M alum) and nationally-syndicated columnist Aisha Sultan (and former Knight Wallace Fellow), at the annual Josh...

In the Media

Shaefer attributes low food insecurity to stimulus checks

Sep 10, 2021 The New York Times

New data reveals that food insecurity stayed low during the pandemic stayed at relatively low levels, which Luke Shaefer attributes to expanded government aid. “We now have definitive evidence that food hardship is responsive to government aid....

Luke Shaefer, Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy

In the Media

Chamberlin reacts to lawsuit against Michigan redistricting commission

Sep 10, 2021 Michigan Radio

The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission is being sued for not meeting deadlines, even though the census data they need to redraw districts has been delayed. "It would have been as a sort of Herculean task to do all the work...

Publication

A methane fee could be a first and easier step towards a carbon tax - Rabe

Sep 10, 2021

While the United States has been slow to take action on a carbon tax, there may be another avenue that holds promise to curb the emission of an even more potent climate pollutant— a methane tax. In a new Milken Institute article, “Containing Methane...

Beth Fertig & Aisha Sultan: Covering 9/11 - How the attacks shaped our world today

Sep 9, 2021 1:01:50

It's been 20 years since the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the world we live in is still shaped in many ways by the events of that day.

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Publication

EPI study offers deeper dive into demand for educational choices, implications for schools during pandemic

Sep 9, 2021

As school districts consider their options in light of the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, a study by the Education Policy Initiative shows they need to be flexible in offering both in-person and virtual options or risk losing more enrollees. The...

A teacher takes the temperature of a masked young student next to the class blackboard

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