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Explainer: Why government shutdowns keep happening in the United States

The U.S. government shut down on October 1 as Republican and Democratic funding bills failed to reach the necessary number of votes in the Senate and efforts to prevent a shutdown failed. Government ...
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From HKS to Honolulu: Alissa Ji MPP 2027 tackles Hawaiʻi’s housing crisis

Hawaiʻi faces one of the nation’s most severe housing crises, with more than 64,000 new homes needed by 2027. This summer, Alissa Ji MPP 2027—who is concurrently earning her MBA at Stanford Graduate ...
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Research Fellows

David Blumenthal David Blumenthal MD, MPP is Professor of Practice of Public Health and Health Policy at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of ...
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PhD in Political Economy & Government

As of Fall 2022, the PhD in Political Economy and Government (PEG) will no longer be admitting students. Students may apply to the PhD Program in Public Policy (PPOL), or consider the PhD Programs in ...
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Earned Wage Access: An Innovation in Financial Inclusion?

Since the early 2010s, fintech companies have both gone directly to employees or partnered with employers to provide access to a portion of employees’ earned wages before payday. The growth of these ...
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What would it take to balance the federal budget?

February 8, Audio: "To balance the federal budget, government revenue must meet or exceed government spending. That’s happened only twice in the past half-century: President Lyndon Johnson did it in ...
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Policing Los Angeles Under a Consent Decree: The Dynamics of Change at the LAPD

The Los Angeles Police Department is completing one of the most ambitious experiments in police reform ever attempted in an American city. After a decade of policing crises that began with the beating ...
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Multi-Year Academic Calendar

Find important dates and events at Harvard Kennedy School from 2025 to 2030.
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Conditionalities in industrial policy

Industrial policy is back on the policy agenda. In the U.S., the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the CHIPS & Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act are set to introduce $2 trillion in new ...
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The Future of Coal Regions: Challenges and Opportunities

Gazmararian presented his research including quantitative analysis of electoral behavior in Coal Country, surveys in the field at county fairs in Southwest Pennsylvania, and interviews with workers, ...
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Summary of The Mueller Report, for Those Too Busy to Read It All

An abridged version of the Mueller Report intended for those who don't have the time to read the nearly 500-page full report. This version, which is a fourth of the length, focuses on the question of ...
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Jeffry Frieden on Globalization, the Rise of Populism, and the Future of Democracy

January 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interview Jeffry Frieden, Chair of the Department of Government at Harvard and Stanfield Professor of International Peace, on globalization, the rise of ...