Maxwell School News and Commentary
Lovely discusses US-China trade war with Business Insider, Marketplace
"Higher taxes on these goods are likely to be highly regressive, in that lower and middle class Americans spend a higher portion of their income on these Chinese imports than do higher income Americans," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics.
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
Banks comments on southern border wall funding in Vox article
"It’s possible for Congress to enact—over a veto—funding restrictions on this or new funds that the president wants or needs. There’s lots of horse trading to come," says Professor Emeritus William Banks.
See related: Congress, U.S. Immigration, United States
A Bachelor’s in Maxwell
This is a boom time for undergraduates at the Maxwell School—new majors, expanded research programs, diverse experiential opportunities, enhanced advising, and more. It all builds on a tradition of undergraduate education that goes back to Maxwell’s beginning. There has never not been a “Maxwell undergrad.”
See related: Student Experience
Health Administration
Ghanaian physician Laud Boateng will use his MPA/IR to improve health policy worldwide.
See related: Data Privacy, Health Policy
Urge to Serve
A new program helps veterans convert their sense of community investment to civic engagement and political office.
See related: Centennial, Government, Student Experience, Veterans
Alumni Spotlight: Develop Real-World Adaptable Skills for Improving Communities Around the World
The way Roza Vasileva sees it, the future is data: in particular, data gathered by governments—local, regional, national, international—and shared with citizens to make their communities, and their countries, better. Roza’s desire to make the world a better place drove her to study in the United States as a Fulbright Scholar and to launch a career spearheading open data in more than a dozen countries. What made that happen, more than anything, were her experiences at the No. 1 ranked Maxwell School of Syracuse University.
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Worthy Endeavors
As undergraduate programs have become more visible, Maxwell donors—many of them alumni of the undergraduate majors themselves—have grown more eager to support those programs.
See related: Centennial, Giving
WP 217 California Paid Family Leave and Parental Time Use