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...

Alan Deardorff, Ford School Professor Emeritus, in a contribution for Newsweek, commented on why Trump is giving Canada and Mexico time before implementing tariffs."The short delay is both to give those countries more time to propose changes that he...

"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...

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...

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...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is under scrutiny from the Trump administration. Many scholars, including the Ford School's Don Moynihan, are raising alarms over the threats to the CFPB. "The CFPB's basic mission is to protect American...

President Trump has recently taken an unexpected stance on defense spending and denuclearizing warfare. Trump stated he hopes to work with China and Russia to lower defense spending and terminate the pursuit of nuclear weapon innovations on a global...

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...

As President Trump sweeps the civil service workforce across federal agencies, there are some roadblocks he's set to encounter. Some laws existing to protect federal employees challenge the efforts of the administration. “Many of these systems have...

The Washington Post reviewed the Trump administration's recent acts to cut civil servant employees and terminate federal agency operations. Donald Moynihan, a professor at the Ford School, said “such a power would be too great in the hands of any...