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Borrowing Against the Country’s Future

April 11, 2008

No candidate’s tax math works, says Thomas Griffith, a professor in the USC Gould School of Law. A recent history of mistakes in tax policy.

The Tax Man... or Woman

April 11, 2008

With Tax Day upon us, Morley Winograd of the USC Marshall School analyzes the candidates’ tax plans. Obama focuses on fixing economic inequality among Americans — an approach the younger generation is hungry to hear. Clinton, whose campaign finds strong support among the wealthy, treads carefully. And McCain sides with the supply-siders.

Health Care in America

January 4, 2008

Health Care in America PhotoFixing the health care system will require listening to the public's health needs and priorities, says David A. Goldstein of the Keck School of Medicine.

USC Demographer Tells Why Immigrants and Boomers Need Each Other

February 13, 2007

Professor Dowell Myers Talks About His Book in the State's Capital.

Immigrants and Boomers Need Each Other

February 7, 2007

In his new book, SPPD professor Dowell Myers says a majority of the state's voters, white seniors and baby boomers, are undermining their futures by opposing immigrants. By Darren Schenck

Pro-Immigration Protests: USC Experts Available

April 27, 2006

NATIONWIDE PRO-IMMIGRATION PROTESTS EXPECTEDMAY 1: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EXPERTSAVAILABLE(in alphabetical order)RALPH FERTIG, clinical associate professor in the USC Schoolof Social Work, lectures on social welfare policy. He has been afederal administrative judge, civil rights lawyer, social worker andsociologist. Contact...

Policy Decisions May Jeopardize Future

March 3, 2006

Established California residents vote against interests of the rising majority, according to a new USC study.

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