'MarketWatch' notes Poverty Solutions child tax credit research

Poverty Solutions, MarketWatch: "Low-income families with $500 monthly checks reduced their food insecurity by 32% and the monthly payments made life easier for some when it came to their medical bills and utility costs, University of Michigan researchers said in a new report released this week. The researchers said the tax credit had a 'significant reduction' for those low-income families."

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.

Faculty Expert

Natasha Pilkauskas

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Pilkauskas is a social demographer who studies the social safety net, children's living arrangements, and economic insecurity. Pilkauskas' work considers how social policy might improve the developmental and life trajectories of children living in poverty.

Faculty Expert

Katherine Michelmore

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Michelmore is a leading scholar and educator on the social safety net, education policy, labor economics, and economic demography. She is a recognized expert on the efficacy of the Earned Income Tax Credit and its impact on children.

• Domestic policy
• Poverty and social policy
• Luke Shaefer
• Katherine Michelmore
• Natasha Pilkauskas
• Poverty Solutions
• MarketWatch
• child tax credit