Shaefer: Record high 2019 U.S. median income sobering in comparison to coronavirus impacts

“No one yet knows the full impact of the economic and public health crisis that is consuming our lives today and disproportionately impacting the poorest American families,” said H. Luke Shaefer. 

Read the full Reuters article here. 

Faculty Expert

Luke Shaefer

Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy; Director, Poverty Solutions; Professor of Social Work

Shaefer serves as the inaugural director of Poverty Solutions, an interdisciplinary, presidential initiative at U-M that seeks to partner communities and policymakers to find new ways to prevent and alleviate poverty.

• H. Luke Shaefer
• Luke Shaefer
• Domestic policy
• Economics and finance
• Poverty and social policy
• covid-19
• covid-19 impact
• COVID-19 insights and action
• Poverty Solutions
• income
• domestic poverty
• census bureau
• economy
• Reuters