Shaefer is the Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor and Associate Dean at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Edin is the William Church Osbourne Professor of Sociology and ...

The persistence of American poverty. “We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice. Early in my college teaching career, upon sharing an incidental detail of my ...

News of progress at Russell Street Field, the de-fencing of 96 Campus Avenue, and the long-awaited new bell striker in Hathorn Hall. Historic Hathorn Hall is home to faculty offices in English, ...

Creek Street, the historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska did not have the highest outright poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older ...