government shutdown

Millions of people will lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits Nov. 1, forcing them to make tough choices beyond putting food on their kitchen tables, according to a University of Michigan expert. SNAP is part of the overall fa...

As the Trump administration gets closer to cutting off SNAP food assistance, Ford School Professor Luke Shaefer has been commenting on the potential dire situation families will face around food security. "You have to think of food in the context of ...

“The tone of the language is very antagonistic and partisan in a way we don’t expect from formal messaging from agency leaders. If you had a federal employee who emailed their colleagues blaming president Trump for the shutdown, they’d be pursued for...

EXPERTS ADVISORY University of Michigan researchers are available to share their insights on a federal government shutdown at the end of the day Tuesday, unless lawmakers break the impasse and make a deal before then. Stephanie Leiser is a lecturer a...

Betsey Stevenson, who was the Labor Department’s chief economist from 2010 to 2011 and is now at the University of Michigan, said this week’s jobs figures would typically be wrapped up earlier in the week and could presumably get out the door. But da...

The likelihood of a shutdown is difficult to predict, said Stephanie Leiser, who leads the Michigan Local Government Fiscal Health Project at the University of Michigan’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy and has worked as a tax policy analys...

“A shutdown is aligned with the goals of DOGE,” said Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the Ford School speaking with Wired. The network turned to Moynihan for insights regarding the federal employee firings taking place through DOGE's eff...

While the longest government shutdown in United States history has ended, many of the 800,000 furloughed federal government employees may have to continue to cope with the devastating effects of temporary unemployment. In her January 24, 2019 article...