Luke Shaefer, Detroit Free Press: “In a lot of our programs, especially cash assistance, some states make it much much much much harder to get benefits and some states make it easier,” said H. Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions and a...
Entrepreneurs, self-employed people, owners of formal or informal small businesses, gig workers and people with side hustles who have low incomes can apply Oct. 2-13 to receive monthly payments from Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor (GIG...
Dr. Earl Lewis, founding director of the Center for Social Solutions and Ford School professor, was featured in the PBS series, Making Black America: Through the Grapevine, directed by Stacey L. Holman.
This four-hour series, hosted by Henry...
Over this past summer, Justin Wolfers, professor of public policy and economics at the Ford School, was widely interviewed on the state of the economy and the American public's reactions to its performance.
Here are highlights from his media...
Detroit area alumni: Join us for a reception at the beautiful Detroit offices of Miller Canfield to meet the new Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Ford School, Celeste Watkins-Hayes.
The Ford School is a proud sponsor the U-M School of Social Work's Social Justice Changemaker Lecture, "Incarceration and its aftermath: How art can create pathways to reintegration and healing," featuring Nicole Fleetwood and Reuben Miller.
We're excited to introduce CommuniTea, a student-led series of informal, bi-weekly gatherings held in Weill Hall, focusing on key topics of interest to our community.
Dear friends,
It is a great joy and honor to be kicking off the 2023-24 academic year with you! Last week Weill Hall came alive as we welcomed (and welcomed back) our accomplished students.
Last year, we had a great deal of success in the...
Join the Center for Racial Justice in welcoming Airea D. Matthews, acclaimed poet, educator, and Ford School alumna, to discuss her latest work Bread and Circus, a memoir-in-verse that combines poetry, prose, and imagery to explore the realities of economic necessity, marginal poverty, and commodification, through a personal lens.
