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The Lugar Center and McCourt School unveil Bipartisan Index rankings for the 117th Congress

The Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University today jointly released their new Bipartisan Index (BPI) rankings for 2021 — the first year of…

May 3, 2022

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McCourt Professor reflects on 25 years of Hoya Kids and the importance of early childhood education

By the mid-1990s, a majority of women with children were in the workforce and companies were becoming particularly sensitive to the needs of working families. Those sensitivities…

May 2, 2022

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McCourt student advocates to increase equity and inclusion for Disabled students on college campuses

The Georgetown University Gender+ Justice Initiative (G+JI) Fellowship is designed to support faculty and students (undergraduate and graduate) with research related to…

April 25, 2022

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McCourt professor receives 2021 Article of the Year Award

The American Society for Public Administration’s (ASPA) Section on Democracy and Social Justice recently announced the winners of its annual awards . Among the recipients is…

March 9, 2022

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Analyzing the quality of 2020 Census: Understanding the U.S. population puzzle

Although the Census Bureau’s goal is to take a snapshot of the population on April 1, the process to count every resident is closer to carefully gathering and organizing puzzle…

December 16, 2021

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New executive order takes aim at administrative burdens

A thread on the Biden Administration’s work to reduce administrative…

December 14, 2021

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McCourt School’s Massive Data Institute receives $3.2M grant from the Bezos Earth Fund

The Massive Data Institute (MDI) at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy will partner with data scientists at historically black colleges and…

December 6, 2021

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Reducing your risk of cognitive disease: A $12M research study, 60 years in the making

In the early 1960s, a Wisconsin research team set out to learn how students that matriculated were performing and what might predict their future occupational success. With time,…

December 6, 2021

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2022 election cycle preview: Policies that will drive outcomes in the midterm elections

It seems almost certain that the midterms will continue to be a referendum on US institutions — born from a distrust that Mo Elleithee , executive director of the Institute of…

November 22, 2021

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Transforming taxes

As a graduate student, Manoli spent his free time doing what most Americans dread: filling out income tax forms. He became a volunteer income tax preparer in San Francisco as…

November 8, 2021