Adjusting and Planning for the New Normal

[Original air date: April 24, 2020] Adjusting and Planning for the New Normal View Recording View PowerPoint Moderator: Mike Leavitt Former U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services; Former Utah Governor This urgent and compelling [...]

2020-06-02T19:36:00-06:00April 24th, 2020|

How Can You Get Your Business BACK TO WORK?

[Original air date: April 21, 2020] How Can You Get Your Business BACK TO WORK? View Recording View PowerPoint Moderator: Steve Alder, Ph.D. Health Ecologist, University of Utah This urgent and compelling forum provides clear [...]

2020-04-21T16:08:31-06:00April 21st, 2020|

How to Fix Federal Student Loan Programs; and Fix the System, Don’t Throw it Out

Adam Looney and Constantine Yanellis, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020. In a Point/Counterpoint exchange in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the authors argue that the government should repair the student loan system by creating incentives for institutional accountability and restricting loan eligibility and amounts based on student outcomes. [download pdf]

2023-09-22T06:04:25-06:00April 13th, 2020|

Workforce Decisions and the CARES Act

[Original air date: April 7, 2020] Workforce Decisions and the CARES Act View Recording Download PPT Moderator: Scott Schaefer John W. McIntyre Family Endowed Chair for Free Market Economics and Professor of Finance at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of [...]

2020-04-09T15:50:33-06:00April 9th, 2020|

How to Save Your Business

[Original air date: April 3, 2020] How to Save Your Business View Recording Download PPT Speaker: Mike Leavitt Former Secretary, United States Health and Human Services; Former Utah Governor; President and CEO, Leavitt Partners [...]

2020-04-09T15:49:02-06:00April 1st, 2020|

Rent-Seeking through Collective Bargaining: Teachers Unions and Education Production

Jason Cook, Stéphane Lavertu, and Corbin Miller, 2020. We estimate the effect of Ohio teachers unions on education production by comparing the outcomes of districts that allocated new tax revenue in the midst of collective bargaining negotiations (subject to relatively high union pressure) to the outcomes of districts that allocated new tax revenue well before negotiations [...]

2023-09-22T05:51:45-06:00February 29th, 2020|