administrative barriers

Sociologist Pamela Herd joined the Ford School faculty in September 2024 as the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. Her research focuses on inequality and how it interacts with policy issues including health, aging, and administrative...

Vox network recently spoke with the Ford School's Pamela Herd on current barriers in the distribution system of social welfare programs. Herd testified, “We have a huge array of different programs with the primary goal of reducing poverty and...

Recent efforts to alleviate consumer burden have been made within states by enhancing their digital systems used to distribute government benefits. With these efforts, Donald Moynihan argues for a system that focuses on reducing "administrative...

The Ford School successfully grew our faculty in 2024, bringing in experts to deepen our focus on early childhood education, health and aging, better government, and criminal justice policy. Additionally, we welcomed distinguished policymakers in...

On June 20, the Regents of the University of Michigan approved the appointments of two distinguished new Ford School faculty, sociologist Pamela Herd and political scientist Donald...

In the New York Times, Susan Dynarski lays out the case for states to offer free, and universal, college admission testing.“A child born into a high-income family is six times as likely to earn a college degree as one who is poor,” writes Dynarski,...