Harvard Kennedy School's Mark Shepard discusses health insurance subsidies and why they have become such a sticking point for lawmakers.

Elizabeth Linos, the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management and faculty director of The People Lab, and Jessica Lasky-Fink, a PhD student at the University of California, ...

The House of Representatives narrowly passed a budget resolution last month that included a framework for trillions of dollars of tax cuts and government spending cuts. Over the coming months, the ...

One of the most surprising statistics from the 2024 presidential election was the surge of support President Trump received from Gen Z voters. While these voters, born between 1997 and 2012, turned ...

In 2022, there were more than 48,000 firearm-related deaths in the United States, and firearms were the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 19. But little is known about how the ...

Tracking in schools – the practice of separating students into classrooms by ability – is a hotly debated issue in the United States. Advocates for tracking claim that it helps teachers target ...

Economist and public leader Juan Jimenez MPA/ID 2010 has returned to Harvard Kennedy School as a lecturer in public policy. An expert in political economy and economic development, Jimenez served as ...

This working paper focuses on the plight of community banks in the United States. It begins by examining different definitions of what constitutes a community bank, and goes on to review what makes ...

See citation below for complete author information. Twenty years ago Russia and fourteen other newly-independent states emerged from the ruins of the Soviet empire, many as nations for the first time ...

Justin de Benedictis-Kessner is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His current research focuses on some of the most important policy ...

It was my first time attending this amazing event that is organized around high-level decision makers from politics and the military, but that also includes representatives of business, civil society, ...

Following the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, a second administration under Donald Trump has already sparked conversation over the path forward for democracy and how to safeguard many ...