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Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions: Fall 2025, Fridays at noon, SSW ECC 1840

Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions Speaker Series

Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions introduces the key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through a lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. The series explores interdisciplinary, real-world poverty solutions from a wide variety of perspectives and encourages the formation of a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.

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About 4 in 10 Michiganders struggle to afford basic needs, same as last year

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News Release | May. 28, 2026

New Study Finds Rx Kids Reduced Preterm Births and Low Birthweights, Prevented NICU Admissions

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Figure 1. Line Graph of Investigated Allegations Within the First 6 Months of Life for Infants in Flint, Michigan, Control Cities, and the State of Michigan. While the State of Michigan's trend line remains fairly level around the 10% mark between 2021 and 2024, the trend line for the control cities angles slightly upward between 2023 and 2024, rising from the 19% mark closer to the 20%. Flint's trend line, while highest in 2021 with a slight slope downward, the downward degree between 2023 and 2024 is steeper than previously, dropping from above 20% in 2023 to close to 16% in 2024. The post intervention period started in January of 2023.

News Release | May. 8, 2026

New Study in JAMA Pediatrics Finds Rx Kids Associated with Significant Reductions in Infant Maltreatment Investigations

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Poverty Solutions Director Kristin Seefeldt speaks at a celebration for the Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor (GIG A2) pilot program and the opening of the No Strings art exhibit at YORK on April 29, 2026. (Michigan Photography)

Feature | May. 6, 2026

U-M student artists reflect on creating art as social commentary on Ann Arbor’s guaranteed income pilot

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