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Food Chains: The Revolution in America’s Fields

Feb 5, 2015, 6:00 pm EST
Ross School of Business, Blau Auditorium
In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States. (From a producer of Food Inc. and Fast Food Nation)
Ford School
Citi Foundation Lecture, Policy Talks @ the Ford School

Inequality in America

Apr 10, 2014, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT
Rackham Auditorium
Rebecca Blank will deliver the Citi Foundation Policy Talks @ the Ford School keynote of the two-day Poverty, Policy, and People: 25 Years of Research and Training at the University of Michigan.
Ford School
EPI Speaker Series

Supplying Disadvantaged Schools with Effective Teachers: Experimental Evidence on Secondary Math Teachers from Teach For America

Apr 7, 2014, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT
Weill Hall
Free and open to the public Teach For America (TFA) is an important but controversial source of teachers for hard-to-staff subjects in high-poverty U.S. schools. We present findings from the first large-scale experimental study of secondary math teachers from TFA. We find that TFA teachers are more effective than other math teachers in the same schools, increasing student math achievement by 0.07 standard deviations over one school year.
Ford School
Citi Foundation Lecture, Policy Talks @ the Ford School

Helene Gayle, president and CEO of CARE

Mar 20, 2013, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium
Please join us for a conversation with President and CEO of CARE USA Helene D. Gayle and Ford School faculty Marina Whitman and Sharon Maccini on current trends in international development aid, microfinance, and global health initiatives.

Michigan's recession and recovery: Opportunities for the research, non-profit, and civic engagement communities

Nov 19, 2012, 1:30-3:30 pm EST
University of Michigan Detroit Center 3663 Woodward Avenue
This event will bring together a variety of stakeholders to discuss what we know, what we are doing, and what can be done to address the continued hardships faced by many Michigan residents in the wake of the Great Recession and the current slow economic recovery. Researchers from the University of Michigan will set the context for the discussion through a presentation of results from the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study (MRRS), based on recent interviews with over 800 households in the Detroit area.
Ford School
Citi Foundation Lecture

The United States and global sustainable development: Politics, policy, and priorities

Nov 29, 2010, 4:00-5:30 pm EST
Rackham Graduate School, Rackham Auditorium
Jeffrey Sachs is one of the world's most influential development economists. He is the author of 'Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet' (2008) and 'The End of Poverty,' his seminal 2005 prescription for ending extreme poverty in the world by 2025.

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PubPol 746

PubPol 746: Social Welfare Policy

Luke Shaefer
This course examines U.S. social welfare programs and policies targeting the nonelderly poor, emphasizing what we know from social science research about the strengths and weaknesses and the intended and unintended effects of these...