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Masters students produce powerful film on race and racism

Apr 27, 2015
Sixteen Ford School masters students speak about their experiences around race and racism on camera in a new student-produced film, "Walking the Line of Blackness". The students screened the film at Weill Hall on April 23 for a crowd of more than...
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Ford School students host annual US-Canada conference

Mar 31, 2015
The 6th annual Ford+SPPG Conference took place earlier this month at Joan and Sanford Weill Hall in Ann Arbor. The event brings together MPP candidates from the Ford School and the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance...
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Q&A with Ann Lin on immigration reform executive action

Nov 11, 2014
A Q&A between Greta Guest, Michigan News, and Ann Lin, associate professor at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy. Lin has studied recent federal efforts to reform immigration policies and shares her thoughts on why meaningful...

Supreme Court boosts hopes for same-sex marriage says Moss

Oct 8, 2014
Kary Moss, who will be teaching at the Ford School this winter, speaks with the Detroit Free Press about the Supreme Court’s October 6 decision not to review appeals court rulings that have permitted same-sex marriage in five states. “High Court’s...
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Marina v.N. Whitman in Freep on the new war on women

Oct 6, 2014
“I belong to the generation that came of age in the days before Roe vs. Wade,” writes Marina v.N. Whitman, “[my 15-year-old granddaughter] Lindsey and her friends have never heard of it.” But the war on women continues, Whitman points out in an...

Helping working families will help the economy, says Stevenson

Sep 26, 2014
In a Q&A session with the New Republic, Betsey Stevenson discusses the impact new policies to support working families—such as paid sick and maternity leave, and universal pre-kindergarten—could have, both on families and the economy.Stevenson, who...
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Law enforcement increasingly intolerant of dissent

Aug 29, 2014
"It's very clear that when people get this gear they tend to want to use it," says Joy Rohde in the August 28 Policy Points video, "When the police look like soldiers." Rohde argues that militarized police departments lead to violent confrontations...
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"No legitimate, fact-based reason" to deny gay marriage

Jun 18, 2014
On June 17, both MLive and the Detroit Free Press reported on amicus briefs filed with the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (covering appeals from Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee) in Michigan's landmark gay marriage case.Amicus briefs were...
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Wolfers for Upshot: Labor Market Dented, Not Broken

May 13, 2014
In his May 13 Upshot blog post for the New York Times, "Labor Market Seems Dented, Not Broken," Ford School Professor Justin Wolfers argues for a sunnier outlook on labor market prospects."The darker view," says Wolfers, "is that the Great Recession...
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From dreaming to doing - tuition equality now

Dec 16, 2013
On April 17, 2013, at approximately 6:00 p.m., 50-60 people gathered outside the Michigan Union, at the intersection of State Street and South University. U-M student activists and Ann Arbor community members had come to protest the University's...