Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan
Joan and Sanford Weill HallPoverty Solutions produces data and tools for the public to explore issues related to poverty. These tools allow people from different fields to tailor and engage with data from the University of Michigan and our partners in a way that is meaningful to them and the unique needs of their organization.
SchoolHouse Connection and Poverty Solutions have created searchable data profiles that make available child and youth homelessness data at the county and Congressional levels. The profiles also include data at the national, state, and school district levels.
This index represents a holistic look at disadvantage for counties and cities, using health indicators (life expectancy, low infant birth weight), poverty metrics (rates of poverty and deep poverty), and social mobility data (Opportunity Insights Mobility Metrics).
University of Michigan researchers have developed the first validated measure of transportation security that offers insights into who experiences transportation insecurity and enables researchers and practitioners to determine which interventions can improve this condition.
The landscape map and white paper linked below are a product of a partnership between the Opioid Prescription Engagement Network (OPEN) and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan. Using publicly available data from disparate sources (see the data link below for more details), the map considers indicators of mental and physical health, poverty, and opioid use throughout the state of Michigan in 2019. The white paper synthesizes the information in the map and highlights three clusters of counties experiencing particularly adverse effects from the crisis. For each cluster, considerations for mitigation or harm reduction efforts are provided.