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Hamersma study on health insurance, children's mental health published

Sarah Hamersma & Jinqi Ye
June 30, 2021

Money in the Bank

“The amount of subsidy required to do financial services for the poor is quite small compared with universal education or vaccinating everyone in a country,” says Bob Christen, founder of the Boulder Institute of Microfinance, and a professor of practice at Maxwell. “It’s all about giving people the formal tools to protect themselves from vulnerabilities and achieve their goals.”

June 25, 2021

See related: Economic Policy, Income, United States

Wolf Study on Minimum Wage, Infant Mortality Featured on CNY Central

A study by Douglas Wolf, Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies, was featured in the CNY Central article "New SU study shows that raising the minimum wage could save lives." 
June 23, 2021

See related: Health Policy, Longevity

Schwartz quoted in EdSurge article on challenges of student mobility

"It’s not like kids are moving from Boston to Chicago to LA and then back again,” says Amy Ellen Schwartz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs. "Kids for whom housing instability is a problem, many of them are moving around in the same urban area."
June 23, 2021

See related: COVID-19, Health Policy, U.S. Education, United States

Grads set to make the world greater, better and more beautiful

The Maxwell School closed its 2020-2021 academic year the same way it met the complications of the COVID-19 pandemic: a mix of health precautions, expanded technology and commitment to tradition. That meant a prerecorded graduate convocation and faculty farewells via video. Maxwell’s May 22 graduate convocation also included speeches and award presentations, capped with recitation of the Athenian Oath.
June 22, 2021

See related: Awards & Honors, Student Experience

Maxwell scholars publish book on public policy and the life course

Janet M. Wilmoth and Andrew S. London
June 21, 2021

See related: Health Policy

Banks discusses Department of Justice secret subpoenas on Bloomberg Law

On the latest Bloomberg Law podcast episode, Professor Emeritus and national security law expert William Banks discussed the controversy over revelations the Justice Department under former President Donald Trump had secretly subpoenaed records from House Democrats, former White House Counsel Don McGahn and members of the media. 
June 21, 2021

See related: Government, Law, Political Parties, United States

Laurence promoted to professor of management at the University of Michigan

Gregory Laurence ’04 M.A.I.R. is now a professor of management at the University of Michigan-Flint School of Management. He has also been named director of graduate studies, Center of Japanese Studies, at Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus.
June 2, 2021

See related: Promotions & Appointments

Michelmore study on college pricing, student choices published in American Economic Review

Susan Dynarski, CJ Libassi, Katherine Michelmore & Stephanie Owen
June 1, 2021

Heflin discusses food insecurity in military, veteran families in Military Times

June 1, 2021

See related: Food Security, Veterans

Heflin, Rothbart study on early childhood participation in SNAP and TANF published in PR&PR

Colleen Heflin, Michah W. Rothbart & Mattie Mackenzie-Liu
May 31, 2021

Siddiki Article on Institutional Grammar 2.0 Published in Public Administration

Saba Siddiki, Christopher K. Frantz
May 31, 2021

Siddiki Article on Machine Coding of Policy Texts with the Institutional Grammar Published in PA

Saba Siddiki, Douglas Rice, Seth Frey, Jay H. Kwon, Adam Sawyer
May 31, 2021

Steinberg discusses Biden's China policy review in National Interest

In his article, "Brace Yourself for the Outcome of Biden’s China Policy Review," published in the National Interest, University Professor James Steinberg discusses why "there are powerful reasons to sustain the One China policy, but equally powerful reasons to adapt it to meet the realities of today." 
May 14, 2021

See related: China, Foreign Policy, International Agreements

Van Slyke talks to Capital Tonight about fighting climate change

May 10, 2021

See related: Climate Change, Energy, Natural Resources, State & Local, Sustainability, United States

2021 One University Awards Recipients Include Several from Maxwell

Syracuse University announced its 2021 One University Awards, honoring members of the University community for their scholarship, teaching, academic achievement, leadership and service.
May 10, 2021

See related: Awards & Honors

Popp Discusses Biden's Infrastructure Plan, Cutting Emissions in Grist

May 6, 2021

See related: Climate Change, Federal, Infrastructure, United States

Burman piece on Biden's capital gains tax proposal published in Forbes

 "This [proposal] is a significant reform that would close loopholes that fuel inefficient tax sheltering and make the income tax more progressive, and help pay for some of Biden’s domestic policy wish list," writes Leonard Burman, Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics. 
April 30, 2021

See related: Federal, Taxation, United States

Heflin featured in The Well article on material hardship, COVID-19

A recent Urban Institute survey found that compared with adults whose family employment was unaffected by the pandemic, families who lost jobs during the pandemic were twice as likely to report food insecurity, and nearly three times as likely to report problems paying utility bills, and nearly four times as likely to report problems paying rent or mortgage.
April 28, 2021

See related: COVID-19, Food Security, Mental Health, United States

Banks comments on President Bush's handling of 9/11 attacks in South China Morning Post

"Bush and many others overreacted to 9/11," says Professor Emeritus William Banks. "I blame him and especially (vice-president) Dick Cheney and then (defense secretary) Donald Rumsfeld for the reckless policies," he says. But Bush was "never nativist," and his recent efforts on immigration are not a "whitewashing" of history but appear to be a genuine effort at problem-solving, Banks adds. 
April 28, 2021

See related: Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, Terrorism & Extremism, U.S. National Security, United States

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