H. Luke Shaefer

Center Director, Poverty Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center.
Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research.
Professor, School of Social Work.
Professor, Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Ph.D., Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

Research Interests: Dr. Shaefer's research explores rising levels of extreme poverty in the US, the impact of SNAP on material hardships, barriers to unemployment insurance faced by vulnerable workers, and strategies for increasing access to oral health care in the United States.

@profshaefer

May 16 Talk: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

lshaefer@umich.edu

734-936-5065

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Shaefer comments on layered requirements in State jobless benefits creating 'red tape' during COVID-19 pandemic

Shaefer on Michiganders who could be at risk of not getting the stimulus payment/having to wait months for it

Shaefer discusses Americans with tight financial resources have fewer options as they navigate coronavirus closures and layoffs in NYT

Shaefer: Michigan strains unemployment system with most claims since Great Recession

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Shaefer, H. Luke, Kathryn Edin, Vincent Fusaro, and Pinghui Wu. Forthcoming. "The Decline of Cash Assistance and the Well-Being of Poor Households with Children." Social Forces.

Shaefer, H. Luke, Kathryn Edin, and Kathryn Edin. 2018. "The Rise of Extreme Poverty in the United States." In Inequality in the 21st Century. Routledge.

Fusaro, Vincent A., Helen Levy, and H. Luke Shaefer. 2018. "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Lifetime Prevalence of Homelessness in the United States." Demography, 55(6): 2119-2128.

Rodems, R., and H. Luke Shaefer. 2016. "Left Out: Policy Diffusion and the Exclusion of Black Workers from Unemployment Insurance." Social Science History, 40(3): 385-404.

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Make it Home Program Evaluation (Quicken Loans)

Healthy Aging Project (Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness)

Detroit Homelessness Data Book Project (McGregor Fund)

Washtenaw County Summer Youth Employment Program (Wilson Foundation)

U-M/City of Detroit Homelessness Policy Fellow (Quicken Loans)

Mobility from Poverty Center and National Criminal Justice Data Expansion (Gates Foundation)

Deepening Our Understanding of America's Most Vulnerable Communities (RWJ)

City of Detroit Digital Inclusion Policy Fellow (Knight Foundation)

A Randomized Evaluation of the State of Michigan's Community Ventures Program (Gates Foundation)

NCRN-MN: Linking Surveys to the World: Administrative Data, the Web, and Beyond. Michigan Node of the NSF-Census Research Network (NSF)

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