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On July 21 - 22, 2016, the Goldman School of Public Policy will bring together Millennials from across California to explore their generation's vision for a better future in the Golden State. The two-day gathering of young leaders will be held at the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union on the UC Berkeley Campus (2495 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA) from 8:30am - 4:30pm. The Summit will bring together a network of young leaders at the forefront of social change from over 50UC, CSU,…

Minutes before, the upscale restaurant had been brimming with life. “I was waiting for my food when they walked inside—young, barely a year or two older than me, wearing jeans and t-shirts. They looked like the other customers. Within minutes they pointed their weapons at us, killed the foreigners and took us hostage,” says Tahmid, a 17-year-old who survived the terrorist attack at Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At a nearby table, Nadia Benedetti, an…

In the summer of 2014, thousands of Central Americans—mainly unaccompanied children and parents traveling with children from the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala—crossed Mexico into the US. The arrivals made headlines as a humanitarian crisis. The United Nations designated these migrants as refugees fleeing an armed crisis, while the arrivals overwhelmed the US’s infrastructure and created a years-long backlog in the country’s immigration courts. By the end of…

About 9 million Americans receive benefits from the federal disability insurance program known as Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). The program is designed to provide financial support for those no longer able to work, due to a disability. One important question is whether people are reluctant to return to work because they do not want to lose their SSDI benefits. In early June, the White House invited Professor Alex Gelber to share his research on disability insurance at the Council of…