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- Discovery & Impact
Georgetown Center for Children and Families Releases 9th Annual Report on Children’s Health Coverage
Today the Georgetown Center for Children and Families released their ninth annual report on children's health coverage and launched a new interactive data.…
October 30, 2019
- Discovery & Impact
McCourt Professor’s Early Research Paves Way for Policy Debate on Criminal Justice Reform
December 2018 marked a significant moment in U.S. criminal justice reform when the First Step Act was signed into law. The bill aims to ease the effects of hard-on-crime policies…
October 28, 2019
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McCourt Alum Demonstrates What Data Science Can Do for Public Policy
Since graduating from the McCourt School of Public Policy, Alex Engler, MPP ’13, has made it his mission to improve policy and governance through the use of data.…
October 20, 2019
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Shedding New Light on Urban Eviction
As eviction gains national attention, McCourt assistant professor Eva Rosen’s research is shedding light on the little-known landscape of eviction in Washington, D.C., and the…
October 11, 2019
- Alumni
- Discovery & Impact
- University News
A Legal Lifesaver for Venezuelan Refugees
Political and social unrest has forced millions of Venezuelans to flee their country, often by traveling through Colombia to Ecuador. Many are stuck at the border because they…
October 7, 2019
- Discovery & Impact
Tracking Children’s Health Insurance Coverage
Kids and teens are quietly losing their health insurance at unprecedented rates across America. Sounding the alarm: McCourt’s Center for Children and Families, with recent…
September 30, 2019
- Alumni
- Discovery & Impact
Alum Devotes Her Policy Acumen to Hawaiian Entrepreneurs
Brittany Heyd (JD/MPP ‘13) was on the fast track for a high-powered law firm job when the lure of the startup world pulled her in another direction. For the past two years,…
September 23, 2019
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- University News
Ecological Crisis: U.S., Canada Lost One in Four Birds in the Past 50 Years
Nearly 3 billion birds have disappeared from the United States and Canada since 1970, according to a study published today in Science, co-authored by Georgetown Environment…
September 22, 2019
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CHIR Announces New Resource for Policymakers on Surprise Medical Bills
Surprise medical bills result in financial hardship for millions of Americans and top the list of health care costs that Americans are afraid they will not be able to afford.…
September 18, 2019
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Research Aims to Disrupt Traditional Thinking Around Development Funding
When it comes to development funding, would populations in need be better off if aid practitioners simply got out of the way and distributed aid in cash rather than in complex…
September 13, 2019