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  • DMACS Respondents’ Vaccine Acceptance Over Time 64% Early Adopters 10% Wait-and-Seers 26% Holdouts
    News Release | Apr. 6, 2022

    Most Detroiters vaccinated in second half of 2021 were previously unsure about COVID-19 vaccines

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  • Covid Panel Panelists
    News Release | Mar. 30, 2022

    Event series to explore racialized health, economic disparities from COVID-19

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  • Figure 1: Share of Respondents Reporting Sometimes or Often Not Enough Food in Prior Seven Days Key events CAA signed into law: December 27 ARPA signed into law: March 11 First CTC payments sent out: July 15 End of expanded unemployment assistance CTC payments expire
    News Release | Mar. 28, 2022

    US households in better financial shape at end of 2021 than pre-pandemic

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  • cover and logo for the impact report
    Feature | Mar. 21, 2022

    Poverty Solutions marks five years of research, policy impact

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  • Parents' Comfort Vaccinating Children by Parent Vaccine Status. Stacked bar chart comparing parents' comfort with vaccinating children ages 12–17 and 5–11 based on whether the parent has been vaccinated. Categories include child already vaccinated, parent comfortable, parent uncertain, and parent uncomfortable
    News Release | Mar. 9, 2022

    Detroit parents less likely to vaccinate themselves than non-parents, leads to low youth vaccination rates

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  • Figure 7. Health and Behavioral Risks, by Housing Stability, Michigan, 2019. Grouped bar chart comparing health and behavioral risks among housed, housed at risk, homeless, and unaccompanied homeless youth. Measures include doctor or nurse visits, dentist visits, two or more ACEs, attempted suicide, forced sex, prescription pain medicine use, and pregnancy.
    News Release | Feb. 23, 2022

    Homeless, unaccompanied youth face significant health risks, lack access to shelter

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  • SummerWorks participants gather for a mid-summer celebration at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse in 2019.
    News Release | Feb. 8, 2022

    U-M employers, mentors needed to support SummerWorks

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  • Detroit City Unemployment Rate Estimates. Line graph showing Detroit's estimated unemployment rate from March 2020 to November 2021. The rate rises sharply from 8% to a peak of 43% in 2020, then declines to 20% by November 2021.
    News Release | Feb. 3, 2022

    Detroit unemployment rate sits at 20%, nearly 1 in 4 parents out of the labor force report they left in last year

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  • Illustration of three homes beside a "For Sale by Owner – Land Contract" sign
    Feature | Feb. 3, 2022

    Black Michiganders: Key findings from U-M Poverty Solutions

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  • U-M Poverty Solutions Director Luke Shaefer speaks at a City of Detroit press conference on the Child Tax Credit on Jan. 31, 2022. (Courtesy of the City of Detroit)
    News Release | Jan. 31, 2022

    Coalition urges Detroiters to claim Earned Income Tax Credit, explains the latest on Child Tax Credit for 2022

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