Today’s Supreme Court decision on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a much-needed sigh of relief for the many of us who have grown up and lived in this country as undocumented.  President Trump and his hostile administration broke the law. The Supreme Court’s decision recognizes that this administration was malicious and capricious in its actions to further a hateful agenda. The work so many people have invested over the many years&mdash…

Goldman School students Kari Malkki, Asha DuMonthier, and Leo Steinmetz lead the GSPP community in a Student Teach-In on the Movement for Black Lives and Policing on Campus. Watch the video below and view the slides. 

The following statement was sent to GSPP's Students, Staff, and Faculty on Friday, May 29th:  Dear GSPP Students, Staff, and Faculty: I started this email to express my outrage at the events of the past ten days and my disgust about the disastrous leadership in America.  Yet words fail me and seem like a weak and wan reaction to what has happened.  I sit here quivering with disgust and dread.  I know that everyone in…

COVID-19 is threatening the health and economic security of communities around the world, with dire implications for those living in poverty. As the pandemic unfolds, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is committed to sharing practical insights that can support evidence-based responses in the Global South. This panel will feature four experts from the CEGA research community: faculty co-Directors Ted Miguel and Josh Blumenstock, along with affiliates Supreet Kaur and Paul Niehaus. Panelists…

IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 9, 2020 Media Contact: Chelsea Eakin, ceakin@climatenexus.org, 347-371-1305   New national report is first to use latest low renewable energy and storage prices, shows with the right policy the U.S. can avoid building new fossil fuels and increase energy sector jobs by over half a million each year, supporting recovery efforts BERKELEY, CA — The United States can deliver 90 percent clean, carbon-free electricity nationwide by 2035, dependably, at no extra…

by Edward Lempinen Emergency public health measures designed to slow the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran and five other countries have prevented hundreds of millions of infections — and helped to avert a global catastrophe, says new research by a team from the Global Policy Lab at UC Berkeley. (AP photo by Ebrahim Noroozi) Emergency health measures implemented in six major countries have “significantly and substantially slowed” the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to research from a UC…

By Bora Lee Reed How does a team consisting of one professor and fourteen graduate students, postdocs, fellows, and staff, rally to conduct many months’ worth of analysis in just eight days? On the morning of March 13, 2020, a few days before shelter-in-place orders went into effect for the San Francisco Bay Area, Professor Sol Hsiang and his wife were eating breakfast and listening to the news. As the director of a UC Berkeley lab that studies climate change&rsquo…

By Alex Pfeifer-Rosenblum, MPP ‘21 When GSPP alum and social entrepreneur Karen Tumlin (MPP ‘03/JD ‘04) chose to become an immigrants’ rights attorney, she would never have guessed that immigration would one day become among the country’s most hotly contested issues. Nor could she have foreseen that a US President would select immigration as the centerpiece of his campaign and top policy concern. “Like many people working on immigrant rights, it started as a…

A $60K grant from UC Berkeley’s The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) has been awarded to four students from the Goldman School of Public Policy for their Mapping for Environmental Justice (MEJ) project.  The MEJ team, consisting of public policy graduate students (clockwise from top left) Irene Farnsworth, Kimia Pakdaman, Adam Buchholz, and Kelly Armijo answered the following questions about their exciting project. The project is housed at GSPP’s Center for Environmental Public Policy. What is…

Saru Jayaraman, Director of GSPP's Food Labor Research Center and President of One Fair Wage, spoke with Secretary Hillary Clinton about the crisis hitting sub-minimum wage workers due to COVID-19. The event was sponsored by The Riveter. Read more and watch the video.