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» Poverty Facts

WebIn recent years, much attention has been paid to the United Way’s report on Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed (ALICE) households. The ALICE report sets a minimum …

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New index ranks America’s 100 most disadvantaged communities

WebBuffalo County, South Dakota. Leflore County, Mississippi. East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Coahoma County, Mississippi. Corson County, South Dakota. The 10 …

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» Michigan Poverty & Well-being Map

WebCustom Data Maps. Poverty Solutions may create tailored maps for additional categories of available data, such as housing, health, and child-focused data. We also are able to …

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» Economic Mobility

WebResearch Projects . Flint Rx Kids . Poverty Solutions partners with Michigan State University-Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, …

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» Housing & Homelessness

WebHousing & Homelessness. A safe, affordable, and stable home is often the very foundation for economic stability. Yet housing insecurity currently affects almost every community in …

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» Barbara A. Israel

WebBarbara A. Israel. Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education, School of Public Health; Director, Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center. [email protected]. 734 …

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» Key Issues

WebKey Issues. We embrace research from many different paths of study and topic areas. We focus on work that expands economic opportunity to reduce poverty, that reduces …

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» Jana L. Hirschtick

WebJana L. Hirschtick is a research investigator in the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health in U-M’s School of Public Health. As a social epidemiologist, she is …

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Learning from COVID-19 Eviction Response Measures in Detroit

WebDownload PDF of full policy brief. Download PDF of related working paper. Introduction. Mass evictions threatened public health long before the onset of COVID-19.

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» One Time Spending for Long-Term Impact: Evaluating …

WebDownload PDF of full policy brief. By Amanda Nothaft. Introduction. The COVID-19 pandemic and its disproportionate impact on Black and other non-White …

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SPENDING ON GOVERNMENT ANTI-POVERTY SEPTEMBER …

Web2 SPENDING ON HEALTHCARE, THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Healthcare in the U.S. is exceedingly expensive. Annual spend-ing was estimated to be $3.5 trillion in 2017, more …

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» Detroit Partnership on Economic Mobility

WebThe Partnership on Economic Mobility between Poverty Solutions and the City of Detroit is a joint effort to identify and implement concrete, evidence-based strategies that …

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DMACS Project Brief V

WebThe region generally has a low rate of uninsured residents (4.3%), but these rates are higher in Hillsdale, Jackson, and Lenawee counties, where over 8% of working-age adults lack …

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» New Michigan landscape map highlights counties affected …

Web“Substance abuse is a complex medical issue with ties to mental health, lack of social infrastructure, and limited economic mobility. Analyzing multiple indicators …

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OPIOID ADDICTION: MEETING THE NEED FOR TREATMENT IN …

Web1 INTRODUCTION More people now die of drug overdoses than car crashes in the state of Michigan.1 Since 2000, overdose deaths have more than tripled, increasing from 581 to …

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» Moving the needle on syringe exchanges in Appalachian Kentucky

WebThis is part of a series of stories from the field for the “Understanding Communities of Deep Disadvantage” project. By Lanora Johnson CLAY COUNTY, Ky. …

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» The Transportation Security Index

WebThe index can be used to assign respondents a continuous score representing their level of transportation insecurity or to categorize respondents as experiencing no insecurity or …

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