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

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

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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.

• Domestic policy
• Economics and finance
• Poverty and social policy
• H. Luke Shaefer
• Luke Shaefer
• Poverty Solutions
• NPR Marketplace
• unemployment
• unemployment benefits
• unemployment insurance