Michigan household income drops, poverty rates hold in census release

"This has never been done before on a city-wide scale — to disrupt poverty when it's most toxic," said Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, director of Michigan State University-Hurley Children's Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, who leads the program in concert with Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan. "We might literally be the first city that eliminates infant poverty."

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Luke Shaefer

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

Luke 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.

• Luke Shaefer
• domestic poverty
• Poverty and social policy
• Michigan
• poverty rate
• census