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Gainful Employment regulations will protect students and taxpayers. Don’t change them.

August 4, 2017

Brookings Institution | By Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Adam Looney (PhD '04), David Deming (PhD '10), and Jordan Matsudaira. Adam Looney is now a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. David Deming is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education. For more details on their argument, read the full comment the authors submitted to the Department of Education (pdf download).



How the Tax Bill Hurts the Poorest Schools

December 12, 2017

The New York Times | By Nora Gordon (PhD '02), Associate Professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy.



How the tax bill will penalize wage earners, in one chart

December 20, 2017

Brookings Institution | By Adam Looney (PhD '04), Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis in the U.S. Treasury from 2013-2017.



How the new tax bill encourages tax avoidance

December 14, 2017

Brookings Institution | By Adam Looney (PhD '04), Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis in the U.S. Treasury from 2013 to 2017.



The next tax shelter for wealthy Americans: C-corporations

November 30, 2017

Brookings Institution | By Adam Looney (PhD '04), Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution. Looney served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis in the U.S. Treasury from 2013 to 2017.



The Plutocratic Id

December 4, 2017

n + 1 | By Daniel Schlozman (PhD '11), Assistant Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University. 

"The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a horrifying but aso politically curious document," Schlozman observes. He examines "why a bill so manifestly written to please such a narrow stratum of plutocrats, with so few evident political benefits to a party hoping to retain power, now heads into the home stretch...That this is 'what Republicans do' hardly seems sufficient to make sense of how we got there."



Brexit appealed to white working-class men who feel society no longer values them

December 14, 2017

LSE Brexit | By Noam Gidron and Peter A. Hall. Why is there such strong support for right-populist causes and candidates among the white working class? The authors' summarize their recent article published in the British Journal of Sociology.
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Noam Gidron (PhD '16) is a fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. Beginning in 2018, he will join the faculty of the Department of Political Science and the Joint Program in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Peter A Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government, Harvard University, and at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.



The Big Picture: Violence and Criminal Justice

October 23, 2017

Public Books | By Patrick Sharkey (PhD '07'), Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at NYU. This is the 11th installment of The Big Picture, a public symposium on what’s at stake in Trump’s America, co-organized by Public Books and NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. 



74 Interview: The Rigorous, Not-Easily-Defined Education Reform Philosophy of Harvard’s Jal Mehta

November 3, 2017

The 74 | Harvard's Jal Mehta on why school reforms fail, how they can succeed, and what makes teaching so complex. Jal Mehta (PhD '06) is an asociate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.



You're not going to get accepted into a top university on merit alone

December 13, 2017

The Conversation | By Natasha Warikoo (PhD '05), Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University and the author of The Diversity Bargain and Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities (University of Chicago Press, 2016).

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