Christina Weiland, professor at the Marsal Family School of Education and the Karl and Martha Kohn Professor of Social Policy at the Ford School, explains why gaps in quality and availability of early education plays a key role in economic mobility f...
Journalist and U-M Knight-Wallace Fellow Nidhi Prakash discusses disaster recovery and inequality, including lessons from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. She explains how existing disenfranchisement and policy choices can determine who can recover...
In this Stacked Deck interview, Carmelo Barbaro, executive director of the Inclusive Economy Lab at the University of Chicago’s Urban Lab, explains how past policies discriminated against Black home buyers and how that has unfairly resulted in poorer...
Cortney Sanders, a policy analyst who served as a senior advisor for the Office of the Commissioner at the Social Security Administration and is now the institute director of the National Jobs For All Network, joins us for our Stacked Deck series. In...
What would it look like to provide financial services like mortgage lending in an accessible way to those with lower incomes? Fahe, an organization in the Appalachian area, does just that by working to expand economic opportunity and security for all...
In this Stacked Deck interview, Christie Baer, managing director of the U-M Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project, shares her perspective on the importance of small businesses for owners and communities alike and what support is needed to make e...
Courtney Smith, founder and CEO of the Detroit Phoenix Center, shares her observations on how the deck is often stacked against youth experiencing homelessness, and how in order to properly address poverty, policymakers should include those with live...
As a part of our Stacked Deck series, Kristin Seefeldt, faculty director of Poverty Solutions, discusses the complexities of defining poverty, and some realities we as a society need to reckon with in order to truly address inequities in access to op...
The Detroit Home Repair Resource Guide is an annually updated collection of local, state, and
federal programs that provide home repair support to Detroiters. The guide is meant to aid Detroiters and organizations in finding programs that provide th...
Every year, an estimated 1 in 10 youth between the ages of 18 and 25 experience homelessness in the U.S. A new rapid rehousing program in Detroit – designed by youth, for youth – is providing housing and wraparound services for young adults. Detroit ...
Michigan has the most expensive auto insurance in the U.S., despite reforms passed in 2019 that significantly lowered premiums. And the average annual premium in Detroit is twice the statewide average. What contributes to the high rates? Why do Black...
A safe, affordable, and stable home is often the very foundation for economic stability. Yet housing insecurity affects almost every community in the nation. Find out what's considered affordable housing, why we don't have more affordable housing, an...
