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The Effect of State Support on Educational AttainmentPublic higher education in the United States is of particular interest as state governments are forced to cut spending in the face of lower revenues during this currently unstable economic period. Higher education funding is not immune to these cuts, and …
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NYC Health + Hospitals Leader Gives Keynote at Healthcare Policy Conference at NYU WagnerDr. Ram Raju, CEO and president, NYC Health + Hospitals, delivered the keynote talk at a meeting of health officials of Montreal and New York City – held at NYU Wagner on March 11. The full-day invitational gathering, “Access to Health Service and Care …
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Distinguishing Good Schools from Bad in Principle and Practice: A Comparison of Four MethodsFor over a decade, perhaps no other issue in education has generated the same level of debate and policy activity as school accountability. At their most basic, accountability policies tie school rewards and sanctions to measures of school performance, …
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Residential and GPS-Defined Activity Space Neighborhood Noise Complaints, Body Mass Index and Blood Pressure Among Low-Income Housing Residents in New York CityKosuke Tamura, Brian D. Elbel, Basile Chaix, Seann D. Regan, Yazan A. Al-Ajlouni, Jessica K. Athens, Julie Mline …
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Susan LeeHow would you describe your experience as an NYU Wagner student? I have had the great fortune of meeting some of my best friends at Wagner. Like minds tend to gravitate towards each other and I am so blessed to have met some wonderful folks who want to …
Faculty Profile
Jon SendachJon Sendach serves as hospital president of North Shore University Hospital and deputy market president of Northwell Health’s Central Region. Northwell Health is New York’s largest health care organization and its largest private employer. Headquartered …
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Alexander HeilAlex Heil, PhD, Senior Economist at The Conference Board, is an applied economist with more than 20 years of experience in the energy, environment, and infrastructure space. His work is centered on the energy transition, renewable energy resources, urban …
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Density and disaster: New models of disaster recovery for housing in high-density citiesWhen Superstorm Sandy struck the New York City metropolitan area, it brought to light serious limitations in the ability of federal disaster aid programs to serve the residents of high-cost, high-density cities. Our current models of rehousing, repair, …
Stories
Social Enterprise Created at NYU Wagner is Improving Student AttendanceIt has practically become the stuff of legend: The chance meeting of Miriam Altman and Alexandra Meis on their first day at NYU Wagner. The two were brought together at a faculty mixer. With a shared background working on the front lines in the New York …
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MPA Student's Encounter with the Former President of Planned ParenthoodBy Zak Hill-Whilton (MPA-PNP) Having arrived late to microeconomics several weeks ago, one of my biggest academic fears came to fruition when I forgot to hand in a homework assignment. As a first-time offender, I was allowed to submit the assignment the …
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DonateSUPPORT THE WORLD'S FUTURE PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERS Your support of NYU Wagner helps us prepare innovative, passionate public service leaders to make a lasting impact on the world. Our students, alumni, and faculty address a variety of pressing social …
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Letty Marcus TanchumLetty Marcus Tanchum is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She has practiced law in the areas of entertainment, broadcasting, and charitable foundations. She served as Vice President and …
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The Other Danger...Scholasticism in Academic ResearchMost members of the National Association of Scholars worry about the politicization of the university. Academia gives undue preference to racial minorities in student admissions and faculty appointments. Teaching and research is often slanted toward …
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Toward a Mandatory Working Policy for MenLawrence Mead addresses the problem of nonwork among low-income men, particularly low-income black men, and its implications for families and children. The poor work effort, he says, appears to be caused partly by falling wages and other opportunity …
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State Political Culture and Welfare ReformI investigate the link between the general features of state governments and their ability to reform welfare. The best indicator of governments’ characteristics is Elazar’s political cultures. I define what successful welfare reform means, drawing on …
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Welfare Caseload Change: An Alternative ApproachIn the last decade, caseloads in AFDC/TANF have shifted dramatically up, then down. Of existing studies based on time series or state panel data, some tend to underplay the role of welfare reform. All say little about that policies drove the decline or …
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Welfare Reform in Wisconsin: The Local RoleThe article suggests a new model for the implementation of social programs based on welfare reform in Wisconsin. Existing models tend to be top-down or bottom-up, but in Wisconsin the leading counties and the state government worked interactively to …
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Implementing Work Requirements in WisconsinWhen Western counties seek to reform welfare so that recipients have to work in return for aid, this poses implementation as well as policy problems. This study of work requirements in Wisconsin illustrates the challenges. It also confirms success of a …
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Caseload Change: An Exploratory StudyThe national caseload of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (since 1996, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) rose 34 percent between 1989 and 1994,then fell 50 percent through June 1999 (data from U.S. Administration for Children and Families). …
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The Twilight of Liberal Welfare ReformThirty years ago, welfare reform was a liberal issue. In the 1960s and 1970s, government planners proposed that cash welfare benefits be raised and extended to the entire low-income population. But those proposals were rejected, and since the 1970s, the …