An op-ed co-authored by Susan M. Dynarski and University of Virginia economics professor Sarah Turner was published by CNNMoney. "Ignore the debt hype. College is a great investment," attacks the idea that avoiding student loan debt by skipping...

Robert M. Stern was one of a team of three editors of the recently published Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization. According to the publisher, the book that aims to provide "an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade...

From hosting summer interns to hiring quality Ford School graduates, Annie Maxwell, Chief Operating Officer of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, has made a steadfast commitment to the success of current Ford School students and shows no signs of...

New Orleans knows about starting over. When the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina breached the city's levees and floodwalls, the subsequent floods killed more than 1,500 people in New Orleans and throughout Louisiana. This one-two punch of...

Welcome to the Ford School's newly refreshed website. This cosmetic overhaul is just the first step in a project that will result in the complete redesign of the Ford School's web presence.The Ford School website is the school's most widely read...

The American Sociological Association's (ASA) Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility has named David Harding the recipient of its 2012 Outstanding Book Award. Harding will be presented the award at the 2012 ASA annual meeting, which will be...

Jonathan Cohn, a senior editor at The New Republic, featured a blog post by Jill R. Horwitz and Helen Levy in his column, "Will Bogus Policy Arguments Swing the Supreme Court?"Cohn challenges the veracity of an amicus brief filed by a conservative...

The 2012 Ford School Staff Retreat is one for the history books, but most of the participants still felt it the next day. The June 5 retreat entailed a day of community service and teambuilding in Detroit, with 35 staff members in two groups...

A new report by UNICEF found the United States had the second-highest rate of relative child poverty among 35 of the world's richest countries. Relative child poverty, which critics say may not necessarily reflect real hardship, refers to children...

Development Innovation Ventures, a competitive grant program by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has awarded a grant to a group of researchers led by Dean Yang. Yang's project, "Honing help back home: Maximizing the...