Stories indexed under: La Follette School of Public Affairs

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• Witte to retire after 35 years of teaching, research, service April 18, 2012 John Witte tends to learn a subject as he goes along. From industrial relations to education policy, the La Follette School political scientist accepts a challenge and becomes an expert. Kazakhstan is next on Witte’s agenda.
• La Follette School analysis course benefits state April 11, 2012 Public affairs students are helping state agencies and community organizations make better decisions and policies.
• Many lower-skilled men find employment precarious April 3, 2012 The U.S. unemployment rate of about 8 percent masks a far greater problem: the precarious situation of working-age men with modest education and few job skills, new analysis from the La Follette School of Public Affairs suggests.
• UW-Madison graduate programs ranked among best by U.S. News and World Report March 13, 2012 Several University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate programs are ranked among the nation's best in the 2013 edition of U.S. News and World Report's "Best Graduate Schools."
• UW-Madison graduate programs ranked among best by U.S. News and World Report March 12, 2012 Several UW-Madison graduate programs are ranked among the nation’s best in the 2013 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
• Hunger Meal to raise awareness of social inequality and poverty Feb. 23, 2012 At the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Hunger Meal, sponsored by students from the La Follette School of Public Affairs, whether you get a gourmet dinner, rice and beans, or something in between will be determined the same way many receive their lot in life: by chance.
• La Follette School responds to Startup America Policy Challenge Jan. 27, 2012 With a network of schools, scholars and problem-solvers across the country, the La Follette School is responding to the Startup America Policy Challenge.
• Program focuses on management-worker partnerships Jan. 13, 2012 A program to explore how management and labor can work better together for their mutual benefit will be held this month in honor of one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's greatest economists.
• New U.S. measurement expands understanding of poverty Dec. 15, 2011 Professor Tim Smeeding has joined other economists in praising the Census Bureau’s release of poverty numbers based on an alternative measure.
• Obey, Gunderson to speak on public leadership Nov. 17, 2011 Two former Wisconsin U.S. House representatives will discuss the "Challenges for Public Leadership in Today's World" at the annual Paul Offner Memorial Lecture in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Nov. 30.
• Moynihan examines Hurricane Katrina, red tape Oct. 14, 2011 How an agency’s culture affects the actions the agency takes is illuminated in new research from public affairs scholar Donald Moynihan on the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.
• Yale political scientist to speak at UW–Madison Oct. 13, 2011 The Yale political scientist who authored a "public option" plan for national health care will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison to deliver a Hilldale Lecture in the Social Studies on American politics and the middle class.
• Moynihan elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration Oct. 12, 2011 University of Wisconsin–Madison public affairs professor Donald Moynihan has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, one of the youngest members to be elected since Congress chartered the academy in 1967.
• UW–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty wins five-year national grant Sept. 30, 2011 The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison was awarded a five-year national Poverty Research Center grant by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• UW–Madison economist Reschovsky to receive national honor Sept. 30, 2011 University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky will be honored in November with the 2011 Steve Gold Award, which recognizes a person who has made a significant contribution to public financial management in the field of intergovernmental relations and state and local finance.
• UW–Madison economist publishes book on U.S. financial crisis Sept. 19, 2011 In the summer of 2007, University of Wisconsin–Madison economist Menzie Chinn was among those who started to think something was amiss with the U.S. economy.
• New La Follette School of Public Affairs director named Sept. 13, 2011 Thomas DeLeire is the new director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
• La Follette School to host conference on school accountability July 25, 2011 The La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host a half-day conference to set the stage for Gov. Scott Walker's attempts to establish clear, plentiful and sophisticated information for judging the quality of almost every school in Wisconsin.
• Chinn named to Congressional Budget Office panel June 28, 2011 International finance expert and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of public affairs and economics Menzie Chinn has been appointed to a two-year term on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisors.
• Under proposed budget, most school districts would get less state aid, have to reduce property taxes May 23, 2011 Despite a majority of Wisconsin school districts losing substantial amounts of state aid, most districts will be forced to reduce school property taxes under Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget, unless voters agree to raise revenue limits, a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study finds.