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Prisons and the COVID-19 pandemic: What must be done NOW to prevent catastrophe

March 19, 2020
An interview with Michele Deitch on prison conditions and containing the spread of COVID-19 in prisons and jails.

Op-Ed: We need food, medicine and safety — not tax cuts and corporate bailouts — to face coronavirus

March 19, 2020
As the COVID-19 crisis deepens, my fellow economists have reached deep into their bare cupboards of old ideas, and what have they found? Models that do not work, writes LBJ's James Galbraith .

The mobilization that must start now

March 18, 2020
With the coronavirus bearing down on our economy, we must deploy all our resources now to survive—so that one day we may thrive, writes economist

Commentary: Don't forget to feed our children during pandemic closures

March 18, 2020
Unintended consequences of the coronavirus precautions are hitting the Austin area: child hunger and malnutrition, writes Dr. Michael Hole.

The mobilization that must start now

March 18, 2020
With the coronavirus bearing down on our economy, we must deploy all our resources now to survive—so that one day we may thrive, writes economist James Galbraith .

Commentary: Don't forget to feed our children during pandemic closures

March 18, 2020
Unintended consequences of the coronavirus precautions are hitting the Austin area: child hunger and malnutrition, writes Dr. Michael Hole . We need to come together as a community to protect infants...

Prison restrictions to combat coronavirus leaving monitors, families locked out

March 17, 2020
Oversight visits to prisons and jails across the country are already collateral damage in the global pandemic.

A leadership reality check

March 17, 2020
It doesn't matter how good the plan is to combat the COVID-19 outbreak if leaders don't lead, writes Donald F. Kettl.

LBJ School: COVID-19 updates

March 17, 2020
COVID-19 Updates
 

 

USNWR 2021 grad school rankings: LBJ School ranks #8

March 17, 2020
AUSTIN, Texas, March 17, 2020 ­— ­The LBJ School of Public Affairs ranks No. 8 in graduate public affairs schools in the nation, according to U.S.