IMMIGRATION | What’s Happening at the U.S-Mexico Border?

Thousands of Central American migrant children fleeing poverty and violence are in detention facilities along the U.S-Mexico border. Laura Collins, Bush Institute – SMU Economic Growth Initiative Director, answers questions about the border and why the U.S. needs a nimble, long-term policy solution.
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TEXAS | The Metropolitan State

Nine in 10 Texans live in urban areas. Cullum Clark, Bush Institute – SMU Economic Growth Initiative Director, members of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and the Kinder Institute for Urban Research will convene with Texas’ top urban policy researchers on March 24 to explore how policymakers can manage a growing, urban Texas.
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K-12 EDUCATION | The American Rescue Plan

Anne Wicks, the Bush Institute Ann Kimball Johnson Education Reform Initiative Director, gives her Two-Minute Take on what the American Rescue Plan means for education and what parents and teachers should think about as states and districts begin to make decisions.
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SPRING MIGRATION | Turn Off the Lights to Help Birds

This week, Mrs. Laura Bush appeared in The Dallas Morning News to remind Texans to turn off nonessential lights from April 17 to May 7 to protect migrating birds. Birds are necessary to our ecology and economy, but light pollution affects birds’ migratory path, often causing injury – and one third of all birds in the U.S. migrate over Texas.
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