March 27 press release from Poverty Solutions:
A new Michigan COVID-19 Pandemic Resource Guide provides information on how to access various resources aimed at supporting Michiganders through the coronavirus pandemic and related economic...
With widespread shutdowns of businesses across the country due to COVID-19, states have seen a dramatic rise in the number of unemployed and those seeking unemployment benefits. This week, unemployment claims jumped 2000% in Michigan, putting the...
After months of studying the cost of auto insurance, Joshua Rivera (MPP ’17) finally had the data he needed to see how much Michiganders spend to keep their vehicles insured.
What he found shocked him.
"When I saw that 97% of the zip codes...
In some ways, Kristin Seefeldt’s (MPP '96, PhD '10) career will come full circle this fall as she takes on a new role as associate director for educational programs at the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions.
Seefeldt served as assistant...
Michigan is set to implement Medicaid work requirements in 2020. But Luke Shaefer, professor of public policy and director of Poverty Solutions, warns that the requirement could lead to health coverage losses and an administrative burden on the...
The Motor City developed with cars in mind, but for a majority of its population-particularly those who are low-income-access to a car is financially impossible. Michigan’s notoriously high auto insurance rates are a main culprit, according to...
AMany local governments in Michigan report poverty and economic hardships among their residents, according to a survey from University of Michigan researchers.
Almost half (44 percent) of local officials say more than one in five of their...
The University of Michigan has been making concerted efforts to engage thoughtfully and purposefully with the city of Detroit. To that aim, the recent inception of the Detroit Advisory Group gathers faculty leaders and community advocates to...
Poverty Solutions released its 2018 Impact Report earlier this week. The report chronicles the Presidential Initiative’s successes over the past year, including a deepening partnership with the City of Detroit.
Housed at the Ford School, Poverty...
Governor Rick Snyder has appointed Luke Shaefer to the Commission on Community Action and Economic Opportunity. Shaefer’s appointment, announced on June 7, 2018, will last three years, until June 21, 2021.
The commission serves to advise the...
To help Detroit leaders better craft programs and policies that respond to community needs, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $761,000 to help University of Michigan researchers collect and report Detroit residents' opinions on...
Poverty Solutions has announced its grant awards for 2018 and two Ford School professors, Shobita Parthasarathy and Kristin S. Seefeldt, have been chosen as Faculty Grant Award recipients.
Parthasarathy’s project, “The Politics of Technology...
Tamar Mitts and Robert Axelrod participated in a trilateral workshop on the roots and trajectories of violent extremism. Mitts spoke about the radicalization of Islamic State supporters on social media; Axelrod about the strengths and weaknesses of...
ANN ARBOR—A new map that streamlines an overwhelming amount of poverty and well-being data will make it easier to understand what's happening in counties across Michigan.
Poverty Solutions—the University of Michigan's major initiative dedicated...
In “A job well done: Youth employment program offers mentors, life skills,” the University Record highlights Poverty Solutions’ Summer Youth Employment Program. The pilot program, launched this summer, is pairing more than three-dozen local...
Kim Kozlowski of The Detroit News featured U-M’s new Poverty Solutions initiative in her Jan 17 article: “UM addressing Detroit poverty with initiative.”
The initiative, directed by H. Luke Shaefer, has just announced its first round of funded...
Poverty Solutions, a new initiative at the University of Michigan to prevent and alleviate poverty, recognized its first round of grant recipients today.
Read the University Record story, by Kristen Kerecman, "U-M announces new investments in...
Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan has issued two requests for proposals for action-oriented research.
Junior faculty small grants competition
The first request for proposals is intended for junior faculty at the University of...
With a forthcoming paper on childhood poverty about to be released by the Russell Sage Foundation, Luke Shaefer spoke with New York Times Economic Scene columnist Eduardo Porter for the October 18 story, “Giving Every Child a Monthly Check for an...
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer, has been selected as next year’s pick for the Washtenaw Reads community initiative. Washtenaw Reads aims to “promote reading and civic dialogue through the...
The University of Michigan has launched a new initiative to address one of humanity's most critical and seemingly intractable problems: poverty.
Called Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, the initiative will explore and test models...
Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
Annenberg Auditorium (1120)
This session will examine innovative policies that promote direct cash transfers and tax credits to low-income families, new mothers, and other sectors of society.
This event will highlight areas of overlap between the healthcare and housing sectors, including the cost of housing instability on the healthcare system, integration of health-promoting attributes in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit supported housing, and future directions for research and practice.
In conversation with Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Professor Roberts will share more on her new book Torn Apart, and her belief that the only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.
Reginald M. Turner (JD '87) will visit the Ford School to share more on his leadership at the ABA, and his work on some of its most pressing issues like access to legal services, judicial reform, election integrity, and the eviction crisis.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Dean Barr will discuss Senator Warren's distinguished career as a public servant, perspectives on poverty and inequality in the United States, and her work to create a more just and equitable economic system.
H. Luke Shaefer and other panelists — to be announced — will discuss the implications of the expanded child tax credit and the potential for the U.S. to adopt a permanent child allowance.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein participates in a Q&A on topics covered in her book, “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred.”
Jonathan Cohn discusses his book, “The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage,” which examines the Affordable Care Act — better known as “Obamacare.”
