The Ford School's International Policy Center (IPC) is pleased to announce the International Politics and Policy Seminar (IPPS), a new series of academic talks that will bring together University of Michigan faculty, doctoral students, and outside...

Greg Kaufmann, a blogger for The Nation, cited a National Poverty Center (NPC) report in his post, "This Week in Poverty: Welfare Reform—From Bad to Worse." The post discusses how the decreased support provided by the Temporary Assistance for Needy...

The Ford School is tied with Harvard's Kennedy School for the #1 ranking in "social policy" among U.S. schools of public affairs, according to the U.S. News & World Report. The school was also ranked third in "public policy analysis" and third in...

Susan M. Dynarski and Brian A. Jacob, as part of a National Bureau of Economic Research team, received a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to study charter schools.The project will examine why some charter...

Joe Schwarz wrote an op-ed for MLive encouraging lawmakers to approve the GAIN (Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now) act to combat drug-resistant bacteria.According to Schwarz, each year multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacteria claim the lives of more...

A National Poverty Center study, "Extreme Poverty in the United States," was cited in a series of blog posts from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The posts, titled "Under $2 a Day in America," discuss how decreases in public assistance...

Party primaries for Michigan's state and federal legislators are not until August, but the fundraising by out-of-state interest groups is well underway. As a result, the primary season has becoming increasingly dangerous for incumbents with moderate...

Helen Levy, Ph.D., a research associate professor at the Ford School, is one of four active University faculty members who has served in an official advising capacity for the Obama Administration. She reflected on her time in public service for...

The National Survey of American Public Opinion on Climate Change (NSAPOCC), which reports that more Americans are beginning to believe in global warming, has received attention in media outlets across the globe since it was released earlier this...

The National Survey of American Public Opinion on Climate Change (NSAPOCC), co-authored by Barry Rabe, has been published in the February 2012 edition of "Issues in Governance Studies" by The Brookings Institution.The latest installment in the...