As Congress continued to debate the debt ceiling this week, Betsey Stevenson weighed in.
"I want to clarify that the debt ceiling fight is not a fight over how much debt we should have. When we debate how much we're going to spend and how much...
In a flurry of articles in E&E News, Barry Rabe commented on the state of environmental policy as Congress weighs climate measures in the reconciliation bill, the Environmental Protection Agency writes power plant regulations, and midwestern states...
In an opinion written for the Detroit Free Press, Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence Abdul El-Sayed calls for Congressional policymakers to preserve the water affordability and infrastructure measures included in the Infrastructure...
This week, Betsey Stevenson spoke to NPR and PBS about the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, from supply chains around the world, to a changing workforce, and U.S. government debt.
"COVID's affecting the entire world. There are entire...
Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, both professors of public policy and economics, were among the 127 economists demanding Democrats in Congress to invest in quality childcare.
"Childcare is an economic problem," Stevenson said. "It is part of...
This year, former Congressman Sander Levin donated over 700 boxes of documents to University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library. On October 14, the Ford School co-hosted a celebration of Sander Levin’s contribution and his years of public...
College access has been getting a lot of buzz, but getting more people to enroll in higher education is only the first step. Helping people graduate is proving a larger hurdle, something the House Committee on Education and Labor’s Subcommittee on...
On May 1, 2019, Joshua Rivera (MPP ’17), a researcher with U-M’s Poverty Solutions, testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. The hearing, titled “Examining Discrimination in the...
Around 200 University of Michigan and Ann Arbor community members gathered in Weill Hall this past Presidents’ Day for a continuation of the Conversations Across Difference speaker series. This iteration, titled “Voices from Across the Aisle,”...
The Ford School is sending two students, Chelsea Davis (MPP ’19) and Benjamin Eikey (MPP ’19) to Capitol Hill this winter as the Riecker Fellows in the offices of U.S. Senator Gary Peters and Congressman John Moolenaar.
The Riecker Michigan...
Richard Hall and Molly E. Reynolds (PhD '15) will co-author a chapter, "Financing the 2016 Congressional," in the forthcoming Brookings Institution Press book, Financing the 2016 Elections (David Magleby, ed.). The book is expected to be published...
Molly E. Reynolds (PhD '15) and Richard L. Hall co-authored an August 8 paper in Political Research Quarterly: "Issue Advertising and Legislative Voting on the Affordable Care Act."
Abstract
During the congressional fight over the Affordable...
Michael S. Barr, a key architect of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, isn't mincing words when it comes to outlining the stakes of dismantling the historic Wall Street reform and consumer protection legislation. Last month, he testified before Congress...
Former U.S. Congressman Dr. John J.H. "Joe" Schwarz is celebrating his 10th year of teaching at the Ford School as he scales back to a slightly less frenetic pace. In this column, he reflects on partisan politics, local governance, and his time at...
Barry Rabe was one of five policy and economic experts tapped by the Huffington Post to examine the merits of the 40-plus jobs bills Republicans have tried to pass in recent years. While the majority of the bills have stalled in the...
According to an analysis conducted by Bloomberg BNA, a division of Bloomberg, some 40 different groups spent money in the first three months of 2014 to lobby Congress on the minimum wage bill. Labor unions were for the bill; business groups were...
"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...
A Grand Bargain on Fracking? Lessons from Springfield, Illinoisby Barry RabeEditor's Note: A new Illinois statewide policy on shale development and the possible use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) procedures was just passed with overwhelming...
Justin Wolfers was quoted in a Today.com article looking at growing public concern surrounding national debt and political dysfunction in America. The article points to a January Gallop poll in which 20 percent of respondents said they view the...
For a story about efforts by former Republican Congressman Bob Inglis to combat global warming, Bloomberg News talked with Barry Rabe about political party divisions on climate policy."Party affiliation is the single most important way to expect...
With automatic federal deficit reduction measures set to take effect in January, Justin Wolfers appeared on MSNBC's "NOW with Alex Wagner" to discuss the role of tax reform in reducing the U.S. deficit. Wolfers discussed various perspectives on...
"Congress is an extremely well-designed institution," observed Rep. John D. Dingell at the Ford School event "What's gone so wrong with Congress?" on February 22. "But it's unfortunately run by human beings." Nearly 200 people attended the...
In nearly eight years, the federal No Child Left Behind school reforms have become perhaps the most controversial yet far-reaching educational policies of the past four decades. Opponents are turning their fire on No Child now that it is up for...
The Obama Administration implements Susan Dynarski's research on financial aid
Stretched family incomes, fewer private sources of credit, and rising tuition costs–while still a key predictor of lifetime earnings, a college education has become...
With more than three decades of policy experience and knowing how Washington does – and doesn't – work, recently retired U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe has keen and contemporary insights on what Congressional initiatives to look for in the coming year.
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Join the conversation on Twitter: #fordschooldingell Hosted by: Richard L. Hall, Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science and the Arts From the speaker's bio John D.
Free and open to the public. Book sales and signing immediately following. Continue the conversation on Twitter: #policytalks Thomas Mann (MA '68, PhD '77) and Norman Ornstein (PhD '74) will discuss their most recent book, the New York Times bestseller, It's Even Worse than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism.
Is Congress too partisan? Can Congress fulfill its legislative and oversight functions? Do the executive and judicial branches effectively control public policy formulation?
