News & Notes | October 19, 2018
President's Tree returns to Observatory Hill

The La Follette School recently experienced a rebirth of sorts. A graft from the long-standing, much-beloved President's Oak was planted near Washburn Observatory during a ceremony celebrating both the future and the past.  The original President's Oak lived for more than 300 years old just outside the La Follette School, which originally housed several university presidents - hence, its name. Read more.
Study finds state's African American poverty rate 3 to 4 times higher than white poverty rate
Although there appears to be some progress in reducing child poverty in Wisconsin - especially black child poverty, which has fallen from 39.1 percent in 2008 to 30.4 percent in 2016 - the rates for children of color remain multiple times higher than those for white children. Read more.
Reporter, long-distance walker, now La Follette School student
Jackson Parr, a first-year MPA student, hopes to focus on water policy, partly because of his reporting for Door County's Peninsula Pulse. Read more. 
2018 Policy Report highlights faculty research
The 2018 Policy Report focuses on foreign trade policies, work re-entry after retirement, solar energy, financial decision-making, and the impact of minimum-wage increases on Hispanic women. 
In the News
Professor Greg Nemet, Report Calls For Capturing Carbon To Combat Climate Change. How Would That Work?, Here and Now. Listen. 

Faculty affiliate Barry Burden, We re-ran polls from 1991 about Anita Hill, this time about Christine Blasey Ford, Vox. Read more. 

Faculty affiliate Alta Charo, Startups Plan the Health Data Gold Rush, The Scientist. Read more. 

Faculty affiliate Ryan Owens, Here's the Abortion Case That Could Overturn Roe v. Wade, LifeZette. Read more.

Faculty affiliate Jonathan Patz, As global temperatures rise, so will mental health issues, study says, CNN. Read more.

Faculty affiliate Julie Underwood, Funding for K-12 education a major fault line in governor's race, La Crosse Tribune. Read more. 

Faculty affiliate David Canon, Education is the one issue both Scott Walker and Tony Evers are hitting hard in their campaign ads, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Read more. 
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October 24: Seminar - Prenatal Substance Use - The Effects of State Policy on Maternal and Infant Outcomes

October 24: La Follette School Student Association Trivia Fundraiser

October 31: Seminar - The Affordable Care Act: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Miscalculations), and Where Does Health Policy Go Next? 

November 8: DC Alumni & Friends Reception

February 7: Madison Alumni & Friends Reception
Alumni News

Christopher Russell (MIPA/JD '16) had his article about Ukraine's long struggle against corruption and the Revolution of Dignity movement published in The National Interest. Read more. 

Ruanda McFerron (MPA, MS '18) is a Cookingham-Noll Management Fellow for the City Manager's Office in Kansas City, Missouri. Read more. 
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