A majority of Michigan's local government leaders believe revenue from the personal property tax is important to their budgets, according to a University of Michigan survey.The Michigan Personal Property Tax is assessed on businesses for their...

Betsey Stevenson was quoted in a Bloomberg article about the growing attention given to affairs among powerful politicians and business people.Part of the reason for this change, Stevenson told Bloomberg, is that new professional opportunities for...

About 115,000 women lose their private health insurance every year in the wake of divorce, according to a University of Michigan study.And this loss is not temporary: women's overall rates of health insurance coverage remain depressed for more than...

Professor Barry Rabe spoke with ClimateWire about victories and losses for environmentalists coming out of the November 6 elections. Rabe pointed out that the defeat of Michigan's Proposal 3—which would shift the state's utilities toward...

The New England Journal of Medicine published an article by Helen Levy and Katherine Baicker, titled "The Insurance Value of Medicare."The article discusses the imbalance in cost sharing among Medicare beneficiaries and considers common solutions...

The Monkey Cage, a blog about politics and political science research, published a guest column by Philip Potter, which looks at trends in the relationship between presidential elections and American foreign policy. Drawing on recent studies about...

A new $9 million University of Michigan Great Lakes research and education center will guide efforts to protect and restore the world's largest group of freshwater lakes by reducing toxic contamination, combating invasive species, protecting...

Justin Wolfers spoke with the New York Times about the effectiveness of polling voters about their expectations in order to forecast the outcome of elections."More information produces better results," Wolfers told the New York Times. Asking voters...

Join us for a Policy Talks @ the Ford School lecture by Dick Costolo (BS '85), CEO of Twitter, on Friday, November 16....

Q: Rising inequality. Voting rights. The Arab Spring. Education reform. Congressional gridlock. The Eurozone crisis. Obamacare. Prison reform. Climate change. National security. A: Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy. Join us on Monday, November 5...