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Unemployment benefits are “the most arcane and complicated” government program - Shaefer

April 6, 2023 NPR Marketplace
Photo of Luke Shaefer in the Ford School's Towsley Reading Room

Luke Shaefer, NPR Marketplace: "There is undoubtedly a set of people who actually are eligible for benefits and should be getting them."

Luke Shaefer

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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.