The White Album
Published in 1979, The White Album by Joan Didion reflects a time of change here in California and America as a whole.
Talking 21st Century Storytelling with LeVar Burton
by Justine Dodgen and Raphael Bostic Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton One in four children in America is functionally illiterate, according to LeVar Burton, host and executive producer of the well-known children’s show, Reading Rainbow. Many recent studies have pointed out that America has fallen from the top ranks of educational standards, Read more…
CEQA and Infill Development: Should there be a safe haven?
View more photos of the event here. Price Research Center Collaborative November 18, 2014 The Price Research Collaborative aims to foster critical discussion about both specific policy areas as well as the ways in which those policy areas are being implemented. This collaborative brings together the Bedrosian Center on Governance and Read more…
Bedrosian Faculty at APPAM
Center Director, Raphael Bostic and Bedrosian Faculty Affiliates, Elizabeth Graddy, Pamela McCann, Juliet Musso, William Resh, and Christopher Weare among others, are presenting at this year’s Association for Public Policy Analysis and Managment (APPAM) Fall Conference in Albuquerque, NM this week. Raphael Bostic will be participating in the following roundtables: The Read more…
The Castle
In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss The Castle, by Franz Kafka. Three policy profs discussing the great modernist classic …
Beyond the University
In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters, by Michael S. Roth. The book has been getting a lot of media attention in the higher ed circles, and we think it’s a decidedly important topic, one that impacts governance dramatically. Roth takes an historic look at thought on education in America.
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Enforcing Order
In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing by Didier Fassin – a study of an anti-crime squad in the outskirts of Paris.
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Here’s proof Raphael Bostic is 100% correct on housing
Jacob Gaffney quotes our Director in a post for Housing Wire. Dr. Raphael Bostic has the longest title I’ve ever seen for one person. Bostic is the Judith and John Bedrosian Chair in Governance and the Public Enterprise at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Read more…
Disjointed policies thwarting housing, economists lament
Raphael Bostic is quoted in an article on housing policy in Market Watch.
Officials should pay more attention to whether various policies are accomplishing desirable and efficient goals, experts said. Benefits from the popular mortgage-interest deduction, for example, skew toward higher-income households, critics note.
“[It’s] an expenditure that is not actually accomplishing a social benefit, so we have to change that,” said Raphael Bostic, a professor at the University of Southern California and former assistant secretary for policy development and research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Citizenville
In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, the faculty discuss California lieutenant Governor, Gavin Newsom’s book Citizenville.
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Unite For Veterans
July 16, 2014 7:30am to 2:00pm Unite for Veterans will bring together key business and civic leaders, agencies and community stakeholders to highlight the scalable best practices in employment, housing and other human services to provide veterans with a fulfilling life after military service. Register online today. Keynote address by Read more…
United for Veterans – Live Streaming Today
Summit on July 16 gathers local, state and federal stakeholders to highlight efforts to help veterans after their service Unite for Veterans is an event that will bring together key city, state and federal officials; business leaders; and community stakeholders to highlight best practices in employment and housing to provide Read more…
Bostic to participate in Unite for Veterans event on July 16th
Raphael Bostic will participate in the upcoming Unite for Veterans summit presented by United Way of Greater Los Angeles, USC Price School of Public Policy, Federal Reserve Bank, and City of Los Angeles. The summit will feature panel discussions with prominent experts dedicated to veteran support services and programs and include a keynote Read more…
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
In this inaugural edition of the Bedrosian Book Club podcast, four of our faculty discuss Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, the French economics book on inequality that is taking the world by storm.
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What’s the health of the economy in your own neighborhood?
Our Director, Raphael Bostic on KPCC’s Take Two this morning discussing micro-economics within different neighborhoods in the Los Angeles area: via KPCC Take Two | May 8th, 2014, 9:35am The economy may be recovering, but it may be hard to tell depending on where you live. In a place like Silicon Beach, Read more…
Bostic appointed to CFPB Advisory Research Council
Congratulations to Raphael Bostic – he has been newly appointmented to the CFPB (the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) Advisory Research Council: CFPB announces appointments to Advisory Research Council By Barbara S. Mishkin on April 24th, 2014 Posted in CFPB General on http://www.cfpbmonitor.com/ The CFPB has announced the appointment of two new members Read more…
60 Los Angeles County 3.6 million people homeless vacancy?
60 Los Angeles County 3.6 million people homeless vacancy? via NTD.TV [translated from the Chinese through Google Translate on April 3, 2014] NTDTV March 29, 2014 Reuters March 27 and 28 days, USC held entitled [Innovating to End Urban Poverty] seminar in Doheny Library, for low-income people face each questions Read more…
National experts debate solutions for ending urban poverty
USC Price’s Innovating to End Urban Poverty Conference drew top scholars and practitioners from across the country. (Photos by Matt Gainer, left, and Tom Queally) Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared his War on Poverty, the issue remains an all-too-familiar part of American life. The USC Sol Read more…
USC conference explores urban poverty
Intersections South LA from Annenberg Media spoke with Raphael Bostic and Richard Parks about the Innovating to End Urban Poverty Conference. Click the play button below, or listen on Intersections website.
City Heights Photo Exhibition To Be Unveiled At USC Urban Poverty Conference
The upcoming Innovating to End Urban Poverty Conference was highlighted on KPBS, with an article on the conference and the documentary photography installation from Matt Gainer which will run during the conference. Images of poverty in City Heights will be a focal point of an urban poverty conference taking place Read more…
Local Government Fiscal Sustainability
Challenges and Best Practices March 10, 2014 12:00pm to 1:30pm Join us for a discussion of with distinguished local government scholars and practitioners, and members of the research project Local Government Fiscal Sustainability funded by the Haynes Foundation Panel chair: Dr. Raphael Bostic, Judith and John Bedrosian Chair in Governance Read more…
New Directions for Federal Housing Policy through Bipartisan Governance?
by Caroline Stevens In early November, USC had the privilege of hosting The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Policy Forum, Housing America’s Future: New Directions for National Policy. Our Bedrosian Center Director, Raphael Bostic, had the pleasure of kicking off the day’s events and introducing his fellow housing expert, Henry Cisneros, which got Read more…
Announcing Best and Worst in Governance
by Raphael Bostic I am continually struck by how little governance issues are discussed as governance issues. Sure, the scandal or problem of the moment is given lots of attention, but the focus never seems to make it to how good governance is achieved and how we can effectively apply the Read more…
War On Poverty: Still Worth Fighting? Yes!!
by Raphael Bostic January 10, 2014 First published on Forbes.com 1/10/2014 This week marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s announcement of the war on poverty. The anniversary has sparked many retrospectives this week about the policies and programs that emerged from it, as well as a debate about Read more…
Bedrosian Director appointed as Fellow at NAPA
Raphael Bostic, Director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance and Bedrosian Chair in Governance at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, has been selected as a fellow-elect of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). “It’s a tremendous personal honor,” said Bostic “to be recognized and accepted into Read more…