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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

University News

Sheila Foster Installed as the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy

Foster, who has a joint appointment in the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Georgetown Law Center, is an expert in the areas of property, land use, environmental justice…

October 11, 2019

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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

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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

Discovery & Impact

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

University News

Kugler Appointed to National Academies STEP Board

Adriana Kugler, professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, has been appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s…

September 4, 2019