social services

Michael Costa (MPP '82), commissioner, California Commission on Aging, highlights overlooked legislation changing lives for older adults.

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With Trump's plan to increase efficiency and cut government programs, Social Security is under fire. The Christian Science Monitor cited the Ford School's Pamela Herd as she argued “Social Security is a clear promise to Americans that if they pay int...

Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan, faculty at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy and co-founders of the Better Government Lab, address this issue in a new article published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. They offer a compr...

A University of Michigan professor offers insights on the Trump administration’s plans to cut the Social Security Administration workforce. Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn professor of social policy at the Ford School of Public Policy and a fac...