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Price students advise Riverside and win $5, 000 at Sunstone Economic Development Challenge
1+ hour, 10+ min ago (301+ words) Four students from the USC Price School of Public Policy won first place and $5, 000 at the Sunstone Economic Development Challenge, a competition supported by Sunstone Management that tasks students with helping local governments create jobs in their communities." The winning…...
How cities like Los Angeles can survive, adapt and stay affordable
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (134+ words) In the sixth episode of Trojan Talks, the University of Southern California podcast, USC President Beong-Soo Kim sits down with Richard K. Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, to discuss how cities like Los Angeles can survive,…...
How the U. S. Tax Code created an aristocracy
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (521+ words) Robert Price (left) interviewed tax expert Ray Madoff (right) about how the ultra-rich avoid paying taxes and how it burdens the rest of society. Next to the Constitution, the U. S. tax code may well be our nation's most consequential document. At…...
Why are the 2026 midterm elections important? USC experts explain
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (475+ words) The midterm elections are still nine months away, but Democrats and Republicans are already jockeying for control of Congress. President Donald Trump recently called for a nationalization of elections, while the Supreme Court upheld California Democrats" plan to redraw congressional…...
MPA alum Betty Martinez Franco's journey from Mexican immigrant to Irvine City Council
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (632+ words) More than 30 years ago, Betty Martinez Franco crossed the U. S. -Mexico border without authorization, beginning an American odyssey that would turn her into the unlikeliest of politicians. Martinez Franco made a pit stop at the USC Price School of Public Policy,…...