Learn how the Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project is an interdisciplinary, action-based learning experience that pairs U-M students with entrepreneurs as they open or are in the early days of operating neighborhood-based small businesses.
Five MPP students reflect on their experiences working with Internship Search Groups and how the commitment of the groups kept them accountable to do the work required to successfully find a summer internship.
MPP student Rachelle Mehdi explains her summer internship experience at the U.S. Executive Director’s Office at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which took place abroad.
MPP student Paola Guerra details her summer internship experience at NGO Vision Democratica in Washington D.C., where she organized the first Venezuelan Diaspora event in the NGO’s history.
MPP student Max Gigle recounts his internship experience at the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, where he developed an infrastructure for the state government’s websites.
GCS Employee Relations Manager Casey Sullens breaks down the requirements for the MPP student internship experience, from criteria the internship itself has to meet to the work the student must accomplish.&nb
GCS Student Engagement Coordinator Claire Davidson sits down to talk through a handful of ways students can make the most of the summer internships between their first and second years of the MPP program
As many Michigan communities — like Greenwood and Chandler Townships — face important decisions regarding their future in renewable energy, they are using unbiased information provided by U-M’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) to
Join the Weiser Diplomacy Center and American Academy of Diplomacy for a live recording of the latest episode of the podcast American Diplomat: The Stories behind the news.
Jeff Donofrio, Executive Director of Workforce Development for the city of Detroit leads a discussion about current workforce development strategies and future directions of work and Michigan’s workforce.
Shamar Herron, Deputy Director of Michigan Works! Southeast, leads a discussion with providers and participants on the front lines of workforce development about what works and what doesn’t.
Rohit Chopra, American consumer advocate and Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission talks about consumer uncertainty. Learn more about the conference
What is the status of consumer protections in place for student borrowers and efforts to regulate loan servicers, debt collectors and for-profit colleges? Learn more about the conference
Michael Barr makes opening remarks for the conference Consumer Protection in the Age of Uncertainty. Hosted by the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy (CFLP).
How have consumers, particularly poor, elderly, and unbanked consumers, fared amid the availability and prevalence of alternatives to traditional banking services?
American investors now face a changing and increasingly complex financial marketplace, with new products and technologies in the financial planning sector.
In the wake of the financial crisis, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spurring significant changes to the financial regulation landscape. A decade later, developments in the U.S.
This lecture discusses the use of longitudinal administrative tax data from Washington DC (DC) to study how Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expansions undertaken by the Washington DC affect income and inequality in the city.
William J. Burns is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the oldest international affairs think tank in the United States. Amb. Burns discusses his new book "The Back Channel," and takes audience questions.
