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October 28, 2022
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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Leadership coaching recognized at NASPAA

The Ford School’s summer leadership coaching program—offered to all master’s students during their internship—was a finalist at the the Voinovich Public Innovation Challenge during the NASPAA conference.

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Atinuke Adediran, Makeda Easter, and Julian Brave NoiseCat on the panel

Racial justice changemakers

The Center for Racial Justice welcomed Atinuke (Tinu) Adediran, Makeda Easter, and Julian Brave NoiseCat as inaugural visiting fellows who will write and produce projects that are grounded in research and have the potential to transform and inform public debate, policy, and scholarly analysis. More »

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Bagenstos joins the Ford School

Disability policy expert Sam Bagenstos, currently serving as General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was appointed as the inaugural Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy. More »



boucher-cekuta-elliott on Ukraine panel

The Ford School’s, Weiser Diplomacy Center and the American Academy of Diplomacy co-hosted four former ambassadors in a discussion about the global implications of the war in Ukraine—including NATO’s future, Russia’s imperialist history, China’s role, energy and economic concerns, and more. Watch »

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Quotation Marks
 

"What economists are worried about is, when we strip out those volatile food and energy prices and we look underneath that core inflation — that’s the stuff that’s hard to bring down. When that hit 6.6%, that made people worried about how long that will last. We don’t have to worry, though, that it’s going to go much above where it currently is. We have to be worried that it’s stuck there." Betsey Stevenson

CBS News: Face the Nation

 

“It takes a long time to determine whether a policy did something good. I think we’re showing in the short term it certainly is improving the material well-being of very low-income families in the U.S. So that’s what we think of as good news on both accounts – that it seems to be helping families improve their food security and it does not seem to be coming at the cost of reducing their labor supply as many people had feared.” Katherine Michelmore on the impact of the expanded Child Tax Credit.

Michigan Radio

 

“What we find is that families with children are the most likely to report that they’re having trouble putting food on the table, the most likely to report that they’re having trouble paying their rent or utilities. When we look at these direct measures of well-being, it’s families with kids who have the biggest challenges.” Luke Shaefer

NPR

 

“Today, I feel a little bit more pessimistic that inflation is a little higher and a little more persistent than I would otherwise have thought. But we’ve heard a whole lot of recession talk, an amount that I think is quite extraordinary given the underlying reality, which is the economy remains in pretty good shape.” Justin Wolfers on the September CPI Report.

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