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Student podcasts with Michigan policy leaders on health disparities, immigration, and more

Jun 29, 2016

Students in Gretchen Whitmer’s winter 2016 seminar on “Running, Serving, and Leading” interviewed a number of thought leaders about policy issues important to Michiganders. These student podcasts (click on the links below to hear the audio files)...

Thacher speaks with PBS Frontline about “The problem with “broken windows” policing”

Jun 29, 2016

David Thacher spoke with Sarah Childress of PBS Frontline about “The problem with “broken windows” policing.”The piece, which explores what we know, and don’t know, about the effectiveness of broken windows policing, aired on June 28.Just what is...

Mara Ostfeld in The Conversation, "The Puerto Rican primary matters. Here's why."

Jun 6, 2016

“Puerto Rico’s primary did not receive the media attention of many of those that preceded it,” writes Mara Ostfeld in The Conversation. “And with only 60 pledged delegates, a primary late in the election season, and a population that is ineligible...

Please join us in extending a warm welcome to the Ford School's 2016 PPIA Fellows

Jun 3, 2016

Please join us in welcoming the Ford School’s 2016 Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) fellows. Our competitively selected PPIA fellows will spend the next seven weeks at the Ford School as they complete an intensive curriculum designed...

New York Review of Books on $2.00 a Day and “Why the very poor have become poorer”

May 23, 2016

In “Why the very poor have become poorer,” Christopher Jencks reviews $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, for the June 9 issue of The New York Review of Books. Written by Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin, $2.00 a Day (Houghton Mifflin...

Sandra Danziger, $2.00 a Day cited in NYT on political rifts over 1996 welfare reform

May 23, 2016

Sandra Danziger and $2.00 a Day are cited in The New York Times piece, “Political rifts over Bill Clinton’s welfare law resurface as aid shrinks.” The piece, which examines the mixed legacy of welfare reform on the occasion of its pending 20th...

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Amplifying policy issues that impact black lives: Menna Demessie (PhD ’10) at CBCF

Apr 29, 2016

As vice president of research and analysis for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), Menna Demessie (PhD ’10) sifts through data and information on racial disparities and uses her findings to help educate policymakers and their...

State & Hill

Yazier Henry on transcending South Africa's violent, lingering landscape of inequality

Apr 26, 2016

Twenty years after South Africa ratified its post-apartheid Constitution, faculty member Yazier Henry reflects on the country’s painful, intractable inequality Last year, Yazier Henry paid $99 for a DNA testing kit, then dropped a saliva sample...

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Mary Corcoran and Betsey Stevenson on narrowing the stubborn gender compensation gap

Apr 25, 2016

Women’s employment and earnings have changed dramatically since Mary Corcoran, professor of public policy, political science, and women’s studies, began to explore the issue some four decades ago. When Corcoran wrote her dissertation at MIT in 1975,...

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Welfare Reform Redux: Luke Shaefer on the rise of extreme poverty, the influence of $2.00 a Day, and what comes next

Apr 23, 2016

On Tuesday, September 1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. Written by Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin, the book movingly documents the troubling rise of extreme poverty in the wake of America’s 1996...

Luke Shaefer delivers testimony before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee

State & Hill

Tackling educational disparities “in the classroom, on campus, and beyond”

Apr 22, 2016

Once, she was a first-generation college student from a working-class suburb of Boston. Now, she is an internationally renowned professor of education policy with the ear of the White House. So Susan Dynarski knows that education can be...

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Ford students engage with leaders of color at Harvard's annual Black Policy Conference

Apr 13, 2016

On April 8, a group of Ford School master’s students traveled to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to participate in the 12th annual Black Policy Conference, a student-led conference that brings together academics and practitioners to...

Davis and independent Flint panel cite environmental injustice, EMF system, and other key factors

Apr 11, 2016

An independent panel convened by Gov. Rick Snyder in the wake of the Flint water crisis concluded that government disregard for low-income residents and people of color contributed to the delay in action, according to a recent New York Times...

Dynarski in Sunday NYT, why talented black and Hispanic students can go undiscovered

Apr 9, 2016

Susan Dynarski’s economic view, “Why talented black and Hispanic students can go undiscovered,” was published in this Sunday's New York Times. “Public schools are increasingly filled with black and Hispanic students, but the children identified as...

Ford students organize panel on health issues within the U.S. transgender community

Apr 6, 2016

On Thursday, March 31, the U-M student group, OUTbreak, and the Ford School student org, Out in Public, organized a panel discussing health care access issues within the transgender community.According to The Michigan Daily article, "Panel discusses...

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The Atlantic interviews Luke Shaefer for story on the false promise of welfare reform

Apr 4, 2016

In a recent Atlantic article, “The End of Welfare as We Know It,” author Alana Semuels explores the state of the welfare system today, focusing in on Arkansas in the years following President Bill Clinton’s 1996 reforms. Semuels argues that the...

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Ford students take on income inequality at annual Ford + U. of Toronto case competition

Mar 16, 2016

On Friday March 11, 23 Ford School master’s students traveled to the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance for "Ford + SPPG," our annual student-led policy conference and case competition. Each year, the event brings...

Stevenson testifies on new pay data policy before U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Mar 16, 2016

On March 16, Betsey Stevenson testified before a hearing of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on a proposed change to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act that would require larger employers to submit pay data. The data,...

Maternal labor force participation and differences by education in an urban birth cohort study

Mar 1, 2016

A journal article by Natasha V. Pilkauskas, Jane Waldfogel, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, "Maternal labor force participation and differences by education in an urban birth cohort study: 1998-2010", was published in the March 2016 edition of Demographic...

Stevenson offers insight into gender pay gap in U.S. News & World Report article

Feb 25, 2016

Betsey Stevenson lent her expertise in labor markets to a recent U.S. News & World Report article on the gender pay gap, which despite gains in educational attainment for women, isn’t expected to close globally for another 118 years, according to a...

CLOSUP MPPS survey, officials in large Michigan cities worried about potential unrest

Feb 24, 2016

While local leaders say police forces across Michigan have good overall relations with their communities, those in larger cities worry about the possibility of civil unrest after well-publicized incidents in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore.In...

Ford School panel discussion focuses on Cincinnati's innovative model of police reform

Feb 24, 2016

On Monday, February 22, the Ford School hosted “21st Century Policing: Lessons from Cincinnati,” as part of the University of Michigan's 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. The event brought together a roundtable of community leaders to talk...

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Farley proposes long-term fix to MI’s flawed emergency management system

Feb 8, 2016

In a February 5 guest column for Bridge Magazine, a publication of The Center for Michigan, Reynolds Farley discusses Michigan’s controversial emergency management system and proposes solutions to help underfunded localities. Farley's...

Photo of Ren Farley speaking into a megaphone as he leads a tour of U-M students in downtown Detroit

Olmsted, the renowned 19th century landscape architect, may offer insights for today's police

Feb 5, 2016

The last place David Thacher expected to uncover a largely overlooked policing philosophy—one highly relevant to today’s police reform discussions—was from a man best known as a landscape architect in the late 19th century. In fact, he kind of...

NYT profiles bipartisan plan to reduce poverty, professor emeritus Sheldon Danziger

Feb 3, 2016

The New York Times this week highlights a recent development in the fight against poverty that brought together thinkers from both sides of the aisle, including professor emeritus Sheldon Danziger. "Finding Common Political Ground on Poverty," the...

HuffPost quotes Betsey Stevenson on the impact of paid leave laws at home, abroad

Jan 28, 2016

Betsey Stevenson is quoted in a January 22 HuffPost piece by Jonathan Cohn, “Paid Family Leave Laws Aren’t Crushing Business, Despite What Ted Cruz Says.”“Paid family leave is finally getting serious attention in Washington and on the campaign...

Join us in congratulating the Ford School’s MLK Spirit Award nominees, recipients

Jan 28, 2016

Seventeen undergraduates, including five of the Ford School’s bachelor’s degree students, were recognized at a January 23 MLK Spirit Award ceremony that highlighted the ways in which these students have worked to carry on King’s spirit.Dr. Martin...

HuffPost says Shaefer’s work on extreme domestic poverty inspired $2 billion federal proposal

Jan 13, 2016

The Obama administration has announced plans for a $2 billion initiative to test new approaches to fight poverty in the U.S., citing Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin’s recently published book about Americans living on $2 a day.White House officials say...

WaPo features Ostfeld's research on American attitudes on race and immigration

Jan 13, 2016

A January 12 Washington Post article tackles American attitudes on race and immigration, citing new research from Mara Ostfeld, who is finishing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Ford School and will join the political science faculty in fall...

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On Michigan Radio, Alford Young Jr. calls for increased faculty diversity

Jan 6, 2016

In a recent interview on Michigan Radio, Alford Young Jr. discusses the lack of faculty diversity in the U.S. with Michigan State professor Django Paris. According to the article, 3.3 percent of University of Michigan faculty members are black,...