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October 6, 2022
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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Harassed for public service

A majority of Michigan's local government officials report harassment, threats, or violence, according to the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy.

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Photo of young children and their teachers in a classroom. By Yan Krukov

Long-term impact of preschool

Christina Weiland partners with Boston Public Schools for a new longitudinal study on how pre-K affects students through early adulthood. More »

Illustration of a cityscape with varied modes of transportation and infrastructure

The future of mobility

Through a partnership with Siemens, Liz Gerber developed a six-week online course that explores the policy implications of making transportation safer, cleaner, and more equitable through electrification and automation. More »



Shobita Parthasarathy

Parthasarathy advises tech policy

Shobita Parthasarathy joined an ad-hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to help create governance guidelines for emerging technologies. More »

Headshot of Morela Hernandez

Hernandez guides business

Morela Hernandez was named to the MIT Sloan Management Review advisory board to develop and share innovative, evidenced-based management ideas that help business executives lead. More »



Celeste Watkins-Hayes and Paula Lantz video teaser

Ford School Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes and social demographer Paula Lantz discuss the devastating structural inequities exposed by the COVID pandemic—and why all policymakers must be equipped with a toolkit for navigating pandemics. Watch »

In the news

Quotation Marks
 

"Women had a very tough road to haul with kids working from home and with school being so uncertain. But we're seeing that the pandemic did not do permanent damage to women's attachment to the labor force." Betsey Stevenson on women returning to work.

NPR

 

"If what you're seeing in a child is a behavior manifesting from underlying trauma being triggered, then disciplining them in the usual way—suspension and expulsion—is not going to change the behavior and will only remove the child's ability to participate in school." Jennifer Erb-Downward on homeless students being disciplined at higher rates.

The New York Times Magazine

 

"How do we get to the scenario where our 50-year precedent is getting overturned? We're seeing now a Supreme Court that doesn't seem particularly anchored on any core principles other than what is transparently a political effort to implement policies that couldn't be implemented through the legislature. How can we call that anything other than rule of the minority?" Jonathan Hanson.

Michigan Advance

 

"When we think about all the programs that exist to support folks in Detroit, they're like the bricks, but oftentimes people fall through the cracks … so (this program is) the cement between the bricks." Abdul El-Sayed on Detroit's new holistic approach to health care.

Axios Detroit

 

"In the case of Donald Trump, he's engaged just as much if not more often within primaries and conventions and nominating contests. … That's getting pretty far in the weeds." Rusty Hills on Trump's involvement in primary elections.

USA Today

 

"I really think that right now, both sides are trying to play with how we affect turnout, how we affect who turns out and how we encourage some people perhaps to stay home. And given that abortion seems to be such a mobilizing issue, trying to find ways of causing people to stay home and not participate is probably a strategy on the Republican side." Jenna Bednar on Michigan's gubernatorial race.

NPR

 

"Given the pandemic, these figures may now be underestimates." Natasha Pilkauskas on children living with grandparents.

New York Times

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