Shaefer talks working on Rx Kids

Luke Shaefer, Ford School professor and Director of Poverty Solutions talked with The Chronicle of Philanthropy about his work on Rx Kids as a guide for the NGO GiveDirectly. Working on Rx Kids he says was "a really humbling experience for me because I thought it was going to be really straightforward.”

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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.

• Poverty and social policy
• Poverty and Social Welfare
• Poverty Solutions
• H. Luke Shaefer
• Luke Shaefer
• Economics and finance
• universal basic income
• Rx Kids
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy