{"id":21613,"date":"2016-06-15T10:15:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/?p=21613"},"modified":"2016-06-15T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:15:40","slug":"phd-students-summer-class-talks-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/2016\/06\/15\/phd-students-summer-class-talks-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Student&#8217;s Summer Class Talks Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current Ph.D. student Lee Tucker is teaching a summer course called Economics of Poverty and Discrimination in the United States. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2016\/lee-tucker-class-on-poverty-and-discrimination\/\">article in BU Today<\/a> featured Tucker&#8217;s fascinating course on this complex topic, which includes discussions on gender, race, age, and more. Tucker is inspiring his students to bring their questions around poverty into their careers: one student hopes to utilize what he learns to help his home country of Botswana when we returns to seek a job in policy there. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2016\/lee-tucker-class-on-poverty-and-discrimination\/\">Read the full article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Ph.D. student Lee Tucker is teaching a summer course called Economics of Poverty and Discrimination in the United States. An article in BU Today featured Tucker&#8217;s fascinating course on this complex topic, which includes discussions on gender, race, age, and more. Tucker is inspiring his students to bring their questions around poverty into their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9087,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7309],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21614,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21613\/revisions\/21614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}