Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor
Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor (GIG A2) is a two-year pilot that provides monthly payments of $528 to 100 Ann Arbor entrepreneurs and gig workers with low incomes, starting in January 2024.
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William Lopez
Clinical Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity
William D. Lopez is a clinical associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and faculty associate in the Department of Latina/o Studies. His research and teaching center on racial health inequities, especially those experienced by Latinx immigrant communities in the Midwest and rural United States. As a mixed-methodologist, Lopez has used health surveys, participant observation, and semi-structured and narrative interview techniques to consider the ripple effects of policies on the individuals, families, and communities that are subjected to them. His award-winning book, Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid, documents the strain that deportation places on mixed-status families and communities in the Midwest.
B.A. University of Notre Dame; M.P.H. University of Texas, Houston; Ph.D. University of Michigan
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Overcoming the chilling effect: Identifying strategies for improving immigrant families’ acceptability and accessibility to health and social services that alleviate poverty The project: In March 2017, a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) by two physicians called for research on the potential “chilling effect” that increased immigration enforcement under the new presidential administration would have on immigrant’s willingness to seek healthcare or government services. Given that the timely receipt of health and social […]