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  • Op-Ed: I am a Type 1 Diabetic. Here’s Why the FDA’s Menu Labeling Law Should Include Small Entities

    Op-Ed: I am a Type 1 Diabetic. Here’s Why the FDA’s Menu Labeling Law Should Include Small Entities

    Julia Vanella is contributing writer. She graduated from Trachtenberg with an MPP in December 2022. Personal Experience With the Lack of Nutritional Information at Restaurants  In February 2022, I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes after a life-threatening case of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA): when blood sugar levels are too high due to the lack of insulin. …

  • Coping with the Far-Right: How Should the U.S. Handle Italy’s New Prime Minister?

    Coping with the Far-Right: How Should the U.S. Handle Italy’s New Prime Minister?

    Yaokun Shen is a staff writer and a second-year MPP student. The Italian Far Right The recent electoral victory of Giorgia Meloni and her party, Brothers of Italy, marks another significant far-right victory in Europe, and the most prominent in Italy since World War II. Meloni’s win has raised concerns for the future of the…

  • Where Refundable Tax Credits Fall Flat

    Where Refundable Tax Credits Fall Flat

    Patrick Carr is a staff writer and first-year MPP student. The publication of new data from the Census Bureau on poverty in the United States has bolstered a claim that policy analysts have been making since mid-2021: the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) resulted in a dramatic…

  • The Vehicle Safety Standard Bias: How Male-Based Crash Testing Leaves Female Drivers in the Backseat

    The Vehicle Safety Standard Bias: How Male-Based Crash Testing Leaves Female Drivers in the Backseat

    Julia Vanella is staff writer and a third-year MPP student. Vehicle Safety Standards Are Not Neutral Vehicles today are required to pass various safety standard crash tests that use dummies representing human beings, including men, women and children to assess how safe the vehicle is for passengers. Although the majority of people killed in auto…

  • Measuring the prospects of Newsom’s newest housing laws

    Measuring the prospects of Newsom’s newest housing laws

    Nathan Varnell is a staff writer and first-year MPA student. Housing affordability nationwide has reached historic lows in the past decade, and home ownership in West Coast states is almost completely inaccessible to Americans of median income or lower. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken a number of initiatives to grow the state’s housing stock,…