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Nguyen Wins Flanigan Award
Public Finance researcher Phuong Nguyen has been awarded the 2012 Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award by the Association for Education Finance & Policy (AEFP). Dr. Nguyen's dissertation explores education policies and finance issues in three locations.
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Policy Matters Class
Weekly class discussions with nationally recognized experts who share their perspectives on pressing domestic policy issues including the economy, productive democracy, political organizing in the digital age, and more.
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Tougher Licensing Laws Save Lives
Dan McGehee was invited by the Des Moines Register to comment on a study released by the Allstate Foundation that looks at teen driver licensing laws in Iowa. The study found that stricter regulations could have saved 32 young lives and $200 million in 2009.
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Health Care Reform Presentation
The Johnson County Task Force on Aging invited PPC Director Dr. Peter C. Damiano to give a presentation on Health Care Reform at the Coralville Public Library on November 14, 2011.
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Political Discourse Symposium
Are you so turned off by the current state of our political discourse that you've just tuned out? If so, you are not alone. To many the US appears hopelessly stuck in a hyperpartison, no holds barred, over the top race towards self-destruction.
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Nguyen Wins Flanigan Award -
Policy Matters Class -
Tougher Licensing Laws Save Lives -
Health Care Reform Presentation -
Political Discourse Symposium
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Upcoming Events
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Feb
29
Tulane Professor Sally Kenney will discuss her forthcoming book, Gender and Justice: Why Women Judges Really Matter. -
Mar
07
Robert Edgar, president and CEO of Common Cause, will visit the University of Iowa campus to discuss the influences of campaign financing, the Citizens United court case and the rise of SuperPACs on March 7th in the Shambaugh Auditorium.