Bluestone to Talk about Equity and Economics
Barry Bluestone, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, will present a talk titled “Economy and Equity: Strategies for Cities and Massachusetts” on...
View ArticleCPPA Faculty and Staff to Work on Collaborative Youth Sexual Justice Project
The Ford Foundation has just approved funding for a two-year $500,000 collaborative project, “Hear Our Stories: Diasporic Youth for Sexual Rights and Justice,” based at the University of Massachusetts...
View ArticleBadgett Participates in Same-Sex Marriage Talks Hosted by Vietnamese Government
Nations on every continent are considering whether to let same-sex couples marry or to have some other form of legal recognition. Vietnam is the most recent country to take up the issue. Last month,...
View ArticleCPPA to Offer Online LGBT Policy Issues Course This Summer
As more and more states are legalizing gay marriage and the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on the Defense of Marriage Act, the Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) will offer this...
View ArticleCPPA to Offer Online Course on Social Movements and Public Policy
Long before the Tea Party and Occupy dominated headlines and airwaves, protest was a fixed feature of American political and social life. Although social movements are often conceived as political...
View ArticleBrandt’s Asthma Paper Named Among Top Environmental Health Research of 2012
A paper published last year in the European Respiratory Journal and co-authored by Associate Professor Sylvia Brandt (resource economics and public policy) has been named by the National Institute of...
View ArticleSocial Justice Practitioner Resident to Focus on Women’s Health and Rights in...
Next month, N.B. Sarojini will serve as the Five College Public Policy Initiative’s Spring 2013 Social Justice Practitioner-in-Residence. During her stay from April 8-19, Sarojini will participate in...
View ArticleBadgett in National Spotlight Over Gay Marriage Economic Research
M.V. Lee Badgett, director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration and an international expert on the economics of same-sex marriage, has appeared in several media outlets this week, as the...
View ArticleNew Badgett Report Shows Higher Poverty Rates in LGB Community
A new study co-authored by CPPA Director M.V. Lee Badgett shows that people in our country’s lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) communities are more likely to be poor than their heterosexual counterparts.
View ArticleBadgett Analyses Put SCOTUS Decisions in Economic Context
Last week’s historic Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage resulted in a flurry of media appearances by CPPA Director M.V. Lee Badgett, an internationally recognized expert on LGBT economic issues.
View ArticleNew Course Examines Springfield and U.S. Urban Transformations
Students will have opportunities to engage with diverse leaders from across the social spectrum and critically examine their strategies to improve conditions of poverty and inequality in Springfield.
View Article“Orange is the New Black” Author to Speak about Women’s Rights in Prisons
CPPA is pleased to co-host “Orange is the New Black: The Age of Mass Criminalization of Women,” on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 4 p.m. in the Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall, as part of the Five...
View ArticleWellspring’s Upholstery Co-op Stitching Together a Brighter Springfield
The Wellspring Collaborative has opened an upholstery co-op as part of a larger plan that draws on the purchasing power of the area’s largest employers and anchor institutions to provide a market for...
View ArticleHolyoke Youth Present Video Narratives about Sexual Disparities and Parenting
Young parents from Holyoke will publicly present video narratives next week that were produced as part of “Hear Our Stories: Diasporic Youth for Sexual Rights and Justice,” a collaborative project...
View ArticleBadgett Witnesses Signing of LGBT Employment Executive Order
Director M.V. Lee Badgett (economics) was at the White House today as President Barack Obama signed an executive order protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers.
View ArticleBrandt’s Asthma Paper Named Among Top Environmental Health Research of 2012
A paper published last year in the European Respiratory Journal and co-authored by Associate Professor Sylvia Brandt (resource economics and public policy) has been named by the National Institute of...
View ArticleSocial Justice Practitioner Resident to Focus on Women’s Health and Rights in...
Next month, N.B. Sarojini will serve as the Five College Public Policy Initiative’s Spring 2013 Social Justice Practitioner-in-Residence. During her stay from April 8-19, Sarojini will participate in...
View ArticleBadgett in National Spotlight Over Gay Marriage Economic Research
M.V. Lee Badgett, director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration and an international expert on the economics of same-sex marriage, has appeared in several media outlets this week, as the...
View ArticleNew Badgett Report Shows Higher Poverty Rates in LGB Community
A new study co-authored by CPPA Director M.V. Lee Badgett shows that people in our country’s lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) communities are more likely to be poor than their heterosexual counterparts.
View ArticleBadgett Analyses Put SCOTUS Decisions in Economic Context
Last week’s historic Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage resulted in a flurry of media appearances by CPPA Director M.V. Lee Badgett, an internationally recognized expert on LGBT economic issues.
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