
NEWS
Poverty Solutions partners with the State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to inform anti-poverty and economic mobility initiatives that enhance public benefit programs and identify pathways for sustainable employment for those with major barriers to work.
Poverty Solutions works with state partners to provide research evidence, data and analysis, and policy recommendations for MDHHS leadership to consider, including:
State Partners
As director of Poverty Solutions, H. Luke Shaefer serves as special counselor to MDHHS and works with the Department’s economic security policy leadership teams on a set of anti-poverty and economic mobility initiatives to enhance public benefit programs and identify pathways for sustainable employment for those with major barriers to work.
Amanda Nothaft, senior data and evaluation manager at Poverty Solutions, has provided data analysis for DHHS that the department would not otherwise have had the capacity to complete.
More about the Poverty Solutions partnership with the State of Michigan.
Faculty Director
734-615-5997Director of Data & Evaluation
acn@umich.edu