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The Conversation: Leiser backs Biden's plan to tax corporations for infrastructure improvements

Apr 2, 2021 The Conversation

In a recent opinion for The Conversation, tax policy expert Stephanie Leiser provides evidence to increase the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% to pay for President Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan. This increase would still be below levels...

In the Media

Leiser emphasizes the need to consider property taxes when moving

Mar 29, 2021 The Washington Examiner

As Pennsylvania considers legislation to cut the state's property taxes, which are some of the highest in the country, Stephanie Leiser commented that people need to consider property taxes when moving: "Every family will have different preferences...

Dean Yang: The myth of the "millionaire mindset": Experimental evidence from Filipino entrepreneurs

Apr 1, 2021 0:53:30

Professor Dean Yang talks about the recent paper, "Aspirations and Financial Decisions: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines." April 2021.

Ford School strengths: A powerful alumni network

Mar 31, 2021 0:23:00

Ford School alumni are an important part of our community. Hear from alums who now work in a variety of sectors and on many different policy issues.

In the Media

Billionaires not stepping into policy spotlight, says Tompkins-Stange

Mar 30, 2021 Vox

“Billionaires don’t have the same reverence in the eyes of the public that they had five years ago and so I think that some of their purchase in the policy process is not necessarily as palpable as it was even four or five years ago,” said Megan...

Gerry Anderson on energy policy and Michigan's economic recovery

Mar 31, 2021 0:57:54

A conversation with Gerry Anderson (MPP '88), executive chairman of DTE Energy and co-chair of Michigan's Economic Recovery Council.

Publication

Surprising results in Yang study on HIV stigma in Mozambique

Mar 31, 2021

What happens when a public health program intervention actually works against the very problem it’s trying to solve? It turns out, that’s exactly the result a Ford School research team is confronting now. Ford School PhD student James Allen IV...