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Herd addresses barriers to health benefit access

Oct 27, 2025

Ford School Professor Pamela Herd addressed barriers to families accessing health benefits at a recent conference. Herd, the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy, was speaking a forum organized by the Tax Policy Center, a collaboration betwe...

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Rabe comments on the role of electric vehicles and environmental policy in the upcoming elections

Oct 30, 2024

Politico, E&E News, the Brookings Institution, and The Guardian have recently quoted the Ford School’s Barry Rabe's insights on the 2024 election campaigns regarding climate policy and the impacts on swing states like Michigan. Focusing on environmen...

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Ford School and Brookings Institution scholars look to the future of US climate policy

Oct 24, 2024

Climate change is projected to cause 250,000 deaths per year from 2030 to 2050; its effects have already cost 3 trillion dollars and resulted in 100 million people falling into poverty worldwide. The Brookings Institution partnered with the Ford Scho...

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Ford School events highlight policy, civic engagement, and Conversations Across Differences

Aug 28, 2024

The Ford School has an exciting and diverse series of events this fall, designed to encourage policy debate, civic engagement, and Conversations Across Differences in a number of ways for students, faculty, staff, and the wider U-M and general commun...

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Hausman's clean energy investment proposal

Apr 27, 2023

The Ford School's Catie Hausman has established principles for a transition of policy focus to clean energy research and development (R&D). In an essay for The Brookings Institution Hausman outlines her thoughts on clean energy R&D policy, highlighti...

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Christina Weiland on identifying inequities and directions forward in mixed-delivery Pre-K systems

Dec 8, 2022

“Almost every state with a public pre-K program uses a mixed-delivery approach, with some classrooms in public schools and others in community-based organizations (CBOs),” write Education Policy Initiative faculty co-director Christina Weiland, and h...

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Rabe says U.S. takes significant climate action, though electric car transition in question

Sep 26, 2022

Ford School professor Barry Rabe has saluted the U.S. government’s “pivot from global climate laggard to leader” with the passage, by a 69-to-27 Senate supermajority to formally enter the binding global regime to achieve rapid phase-down of hydrofluo...

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Wolfers sees signs of optimism amid high inflation numbers

Jul 21, 2022

The latest inflation rate numbers show an increase in prices of 9.1%. Ford School economics professor Justin Wolfers has been discussing the intricacies of elements and implications of that rate. Reacting to the inflationary pressure, the Feder...

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Rabe: Court ruling creates uncertainty at the EPA

Jul 2, 2022 The Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution's The Current podcast looked at the 6-3 ruling on the case of West Virginia vs the Environmental Protection Agency, in which the Supreme Court greatly curtailed the power of the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from ...

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Dominguez: Some positives in weakened dollar

Jun 12, 2022 China Daily

A recent panel of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy and the Brookings Institution featuring Ford School professor Kathryn Dominguez examined the potential softening of the U.S. dollar as the world's dominant currency. The China Daily re...

Kathryn Dominguez speaks to prospective students at the Ford School's Spring Preview

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Rabe comments on political issues surrounding environmental action

Jun 12, 2022

Ford School professor Barry Rabe has been commenting on many issues confronting the push for action on the environment and climate. In one article in People’s World, which describes the struggle in Congress to pass more aggressive climate action...

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Wolfers weighs in on war in Ukraine and inflation

Mar 14, 2022

Inflation continues to dominate headlines as Americans worry about rising prices everywhere from housing to the gas pump. Justin Wolfers, professor of public policy and economics, provided some insight into the state of the economy. "There’s no q...

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Rabe salutes rare bipartisan climate cooperation, though less optimistic about future deals

Aug 3, 2021

As part of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act (AIM Act), the $900 billion pandemic relief bill passed in December 2020, a rare bipartisan initiative to reduce greenhouse gasses was included. It created a significant phase down hydrofluoroc...

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Rabe urges Biden administration to prioritize methane in climate policy

Nov 30, 2020 Brookings Institution Planet Policy

"The Biden administration could declare that America is finally ready to lead on methane mitigation. It could design a suite of world-class regulatory and disclosure tools to minimize methane releases for as long as oil and gas continue to be used," ...

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Rabe suggests carbon tax less vulnerable to court challenge than other climate initiatives

Oct 22, 2020 Inside EPA/Climate

“We are going to have to be thinking of any bill, can it pass constitutional muster,” Rabe said during an October 15 Brookings Institution event. According to the Inside EPA/Climate article, he suggested tax policies are relatively impervious to cour...

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Rabe examines Trump’s “Administrative Presidency” in a new book

Oct 1, 2020

The administration of Donald Trump has used executive orders and regulatory changes in a far-reaching expansion of presidential power to reverse many policies of the Obama administration. In a new book published by the Brookings Institution Press, Fo...

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Why the move to online instruction won’t reduce college costs

Aug 7, 2020

In an essay for the Chalkboard blog at the Brookings Institution, Kevin Stange, associate professor of public policy at the Ford School, reports on analysis of the move to online teaching at colleges and universities across the U.S. He and his co-aut...

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Dodd-Frank achievements assessed on its 10th anniversary

Jul 2, 2020

The Center on Finance, Law and Policy co-hosted a day-long conference with the Brookings Institution on June 30 to mark the Dodd-Frank Act 10th Anniversary. Former Senator Chris Dodd and former Representative Barney Frank participated, as did Federal...

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Future presidential climate change actions are limited, Rabe argues

Jun 25, 2020

In a FixGov blog for the Brookings Institution, Ford School professor Barry Rabe argues that environmental policy has been shaped for too long by executive order and administrative powers rather than more enduring legislation. "So should the 46th...

Prof. Brian Jacob says child abuse and neglect should be ‘central concern’ for state in new Brookings report

Apr 10, 2018

Late last month the Brookings Institution released a report by U-M professors Brian Jacob and Joseph Ryan. The assessment was the result of a partnership between the University and the State of Michigan, detailing the prevalence of abuse and negle...

In NYT, Susan Dynarski advises against online courses for struggling students

Jan 19, 2018

In this Sunday’s New York Times print edition, Susan Dynarski will dispute the effectiveness of online courses, particularly for less proficient students. Drawing on research Dynarski did for the Brookings Institution last October, Dynarski’s new New...

Rabe and Mills for Brookings, "Americans want states to pick up federal climate slack"

Jun 21, 2017

In “Americans want states to pick up federal climate policy slack,” published by the Brookings Institution’s Fixgov blog, Barry Rabe, Sarah Mills, and Christopher Borick share new data from the National Surveys on Energy and Environment (NSEE), which...

Stevenson contributes to bipartisan AEI-Brookings report supporting paid family leave

Jun 7, 2017

As a member of the AEI-Brookings Working Group on Paid Family Leave, Betsey Stevenson has contributed to a recently released bipartisan report highlighting the benefits and costs of paid leave. In the May 2017 report, titled “Paid family and medi...

Brian Jacob tracks trends in charter school research for Brookings' Evidence Speaks

Mar 31, 2017

In a March 23 piece for Brookings’ Evidence Speaks series, Brian Jacob outlines recent research that aims to answer key questions about the effectiveness of U.S. charter schools. Jacob’s article, “The evolution of the charter school market and th...

Jacob speaks with Michigan Radio, poor marks for Michigan’s reading, math proficiency

Feb 22, 2017

“Are Michigan’s schools improving? According to a new analysis of national testing data, the answer is a clear 'no,'" says Michigan Radio’s “Stateside” in today’s segment, “On national reading and math test, Michigan only state where students have no...

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Jacob on how the U.S. Department of Education can foster reform in the Trump era

Feb 3, 2017

In "How the U.S. Department of Education can foster education reform in the era of Trump and ESSA," Brian Jacob describes Michigan's disappointing performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. According to Jacob's analysis, Michigan...

In Brookings, Dynarski advocates for expansion of charter school quota in Massachusetts

Sep 15, 2016

In some urban areas of Massachusetts, a statewide cap on charter schools restricts any additional charter seats. Susan Dynarski and Sarah Cohodes tackle this issue in “Massachusetts charter cap holds back disadvantaged students,” the latest Evidence ...

Brian Jacob on student test scores—how they’re assembled and why that matters

Aug 16, 2016

In “Student test scores: How the sausage is made and why you should care,” Brian Jacob describes how student ability is measured; how various test makers analyze and report student performance; and why this matters for policymakers and practitioners ...

Dynarski argues for better educational attainment data in Brookings report

Mar 13, 2015

Susan Dynarski recently co-authored “How can we track trends in educational attainment by parental income? Hint: not with the Current Population Study,” posted March 12 by the Brookings Institution. With Matthew M. Chingos of Brookings, Dynarski stro...

Barry Rabe interviewed on Marketplace Morning Report about the challenges Obama faces on climate change

May 6, 2014

"Attorney General Greg Abbot, perhaps the most likely person to be the next governor of Texas, routinely says, 'I wake up in the morning, I sue the federal government and then I go home,'" Barry Rabe told Sally Herships during a May 6 interview for M...