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Welcome, PPIA 2019!
For its 38th consecutive year, the Goldman School welcomes 30 outstanding college juniors from across the nation to the Public Policy International Affairs Junior Summer Institute, a seven-week, intensive immersion into the world of public policy. The program, with its focus on empowering and better serving historically under-served communities, offers rigorous coursework designed to sharpen the analytic and quantitative skills vital to success at top-level graduate programs in public policy, international affairs, and law. The curriculum includes classes in policy analysis,…
Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Finance
BERKELEY – The Goldman School of Public Policy and the California State Treasurer’s Office led the inaugural California Green Bond Market Development Committee meeting on June 4th at the University of California, Berkeley. The Committee is working to promote and expand financing for climate-friendly infrastructure through green bonds. “Green bonds are used to finance the infrastructure of a climate-challenged world,” said California State Treasurer Fiona Ma. “By investing sooner rather than later in…
Poverty Among Young Adults is on the Rise
The full article that appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Policy Notes can be downloaded here. The number of young people (ages 18-24) living in poverty has increased over the last several decades, with young adults among the most poverty-prone age groups since the onset of the Great Recession, according to a new issue brief released today by The Berkeley Institute for the Future of Young Americans (BIFYA). The issue brief analyzed historical data from IPUMS at the University…
Treasurer Fiona Ma, Climate Scientists, Engineers, and Other Experts Seek to Establish California as World’s Green Bond Leader
BERKELEY – State Treasurer Fiona Ma chaired the inaugural meeting of the California Green Bond Market Development Committee today at U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Environmental Public Policy “with the intent of developing the strategy and tactics necessary to lead California to a functioning green bond market that will be a model for other states and countries.” "California has been a green finance pioneer in the U.S. market,” said Sean Kidney,…
Goldman Students Participate in Berkeley’s Inaugural Palestine Trek
Emnet Almedom, Christopher Dokko, Robyn Levinson, Pauline Miller, and Anthony Rodriguez Palestine Trek (PalTrek) is a student-led venture designed to enrich the perspectives of the next generation of legal, business, political, and civil society leaders and advocates in the U.S. For the first time, graduate students from UC Berkeley—from, the Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley Law, Haas Business School, the School of Journalism, and the School of Social Welfare, among others—traveled throughout the West…
Commencement 2019 Live Stream
Children of the Dream
From Basic Books FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kait Howard | 212-364-0663 | kait.howard@hbgusa.com “In a highly diverse society and world like ours, integration matters. Most of us learn to live integrated lives through integrated schools. Rucker C. Johnson’s ground-breaking research should raise alarms for policy makers, educators, parents, and any other citizen concerned about America’s future in the face of classrooms that look today as segregated as they were when that practice was…
The Massive Cost of the “New Normal” in Wildfires & Climate Change Era
California Governor Gavin Newsom's office released this memo, authored by Goldman School lecturer and energy expert Steve Weissman. MEMORANDUM To: Ana Matosantos, Cabinet Secretary for Governor Gavin Newsom From: Steven Weissman, Lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy Date: April 10, 2019 As California policy makers deliberate on the most constructive approach to wildfire policy, it is important to understand potential costs associated with the new normal of increased wildfire risk and climate change. Without fundamental…
Child Poverty Rate Could Be Cut in Half in Next Decade Following Proposals in New Expert Report
Professor Hilary Hoynes was a part of the expert committee that drafted this comprehensive report on reducing child poverty. In light of the many costs generated by child poverty for the United States, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides evidence-based policy and program packages that could cut the child poverty rate by as much as 50 percent while at the same time increasing employment and earnings among adults living in low-income families. …
Professor Eugene Bardach on Lessons From a Former Student
In February 2002, a recent alum, Al Fitzpayne (MPP '98) wrote me a delicious letter describing his success in a job search. He was one of two finalists for the position of tax and budget adviser to a US Senator. The decisive round of the selection contest was to be a mock memo to the Senator on an obscure question of US tax policy, about which he, of course, new nothing. “Panic.” But then: “The experience of having…