Finding new ways to prevent and alleviate poverty
in Michigan, the Nation and the World. Read the 2017 Progress Report
Poverty Solutions combines the assets of the university toward the prevention and alleviation of poverty. This work can affect the lives of millions of Americans through partnerships with community groups and policy makers to test the most promising solutions possible.
Featured Projects
Faculty Experts
While education, employment and homeownership have long been considered stepping stones to the middle class, many working families only have access to a separate but unequal set of poor-quality jobs, low-performing schools and declining housing markets that offer few chances for upward mobility.
- Kristin S. Seefeldt
In the Media
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Opinion | Michigan is in the midst of a literacy crisis
July 31, 2018 | Bridge
Expert: Nell Duke -
The welfare state needs updating
July 12, 2018 | The Economist
Expert: H. Luke Shaefer -
Fresh Proof That Strong Unions Help Reduce Income Inequality
July 6, 2018 | The New York Times
Expert: Susan Dynarski
Events
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Dec
6
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor
Virginia Eubanks, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY
Weill Hall (Ford School) @ 4:00pm
