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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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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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No easy answer to tech use in classrooms - Jacob

Jan 22, 2025 The Wall Street Journal
"I just don’t think we know yet" says Brian Jacob, Ford School professor, on the effectiveness of technology use in classrooms. As screen time has increased in classrooms research still shows mixed results on student...
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Moynihan on changes to civil service protections

Jan 27, 2025 HuffPost
Don Moynihan, Ford School professor, described how the current administration is changing rules on Schedule F employees, "officials who played PR or advocacy roles at the request of the prior administration," who are now subject to possible "adverse...
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Bagenstos comments on the immorality of funding cuts to the NIH

Feb 11, 2025 Science
The Trump administration initiated a plan to cut federal funding for the National Institute of Health by billions of dollars. The funding cut for biomedical research was perceived as widely unpopular by federal judges and members of Congress. Samuel...
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Shaefer's Rx Kids program set to expand to the Upper Penninsula

Feb 14, 2025
Rx Kids, the nation’s first-ever citywide cash prescription program for pregnant women and babies, today announced the program’s launch into communities in the Eastern Upper Peninsula (UP). The UP expansion of Rx Kids is made possible by an...