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Michelmore weighs in on expanding the child tax credit in Sinclair Broadcast Group article

February 11, 2021

"A program that is geared toward giving families money to reduce child poverty is money well spent," says Katherine Michelmore, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs. She was quoted in the Sinclair Broadcast Group article, "Dems aim to increase, expand child tax credit, but some Republicans object."

Lovely discusses Biden's approach to trade in Associated Press article

February 10, 2021

"He is going to take his time," says Professor Mary Lovely. "Biden has said repeatedly that he needs America to be stronger before he takes on a lot of these trade issues.’" Read more in the Associated Press article, "Biden treads carefully around Trump's combative trade policy."

See related: Economic Policy, Trade, United States

Faricy explores public perceptions of welfare via the U.S. tax code

February 9, 2021

Political Science Associate Professor Chris Faricy and co-author examine how public opinion differs between two types of economic aid—direct government assistance vs. indirect assistance in the form of tax subsidies.

See related: Taxation

McDowell examines the yuan's potential to challenge the dollar in World Politics Review

January 22, 2021

In his latest piece, "Dollar Doomsayers Are Wrong—Again," published in World Politics Review, Associate Professor of Political Science Daniel McDowell explains why the Chinese yuan does not pose a threat to the dollar's reserve currency status.

See related: China, Economic Policy

Reeher discusses Trump's legacies in The Hill

January 21, 2021

Professor Grant Reeher says that, in terms of policy, one of former President Donald Trump’s most enduring legacies could be the tax cuts he enacted in 2017.

See related: Federal, Taxation, U.S. Elections, United States

McDowell looks at policy responses to COVID-19 economic fallout in World Politics Review

December 22, 2020

Daniel McDowell, associate professor of political science, looks back and then looks ahead at government responses to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in his latest article, "Governments Acted Fast to Save the Economy. Now Too Many Have Pandemic Fatigue," published in World Politics Review.

See related: COVID-19, Economic Policy, United States

Purser cited in Washington Post article on economic relief package

December 15, 2020

Alumna Kristen Patel named Gregg Professor of Practice at Maxwell

December 7, 2020

Kristen Patel will teach undergraduate courses in policy studies and graduate courses in public administration and international affairs.

Lovely talks to Agweek about Biden's approach on trade issues

December 4, 2020

See related: Economic Policy, Federal, Trade, United States

Lovely discusses US-China trade under Biden in Iowa Capital Dispatch

November 24, 2020

"If there’s going to be some type of rapprochement with China on this [trade deals], there’s going to have to be negotiations before that between the Chinese and the Americans that deescalate the conflict and result in some other wins from both sides," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics.

See related: China, Economic Policy, Federal, Trade, United States

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