ISR Insights Speaker Series – Unprecedented: The Expansion of the Social Safety Net During the COVID Era and Its Impacts on Poverty and Hardship
August 3, 2021
ANN ARBOR – ISR Insights Speaker Series is a series focusing on the research happening at ISR. This event will be hybrid.
Unprecedented: The Expansion of the Social Safety Net During the COVID Era and Its Impacts on Poverty and Hardship
Wednesday, September 29: https://youtu.be/vARDqSs8cUE
H. Luke Shaefer
Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy
Professor of Public Policy | Professor of Social Work
Director of Poverty Solutions
A major economic crisis accompanied the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in response the federal government mounted the largest and most comprehensive expansion of the social safety net in modern times. This talk reviews research on the impacts of this safety net expansion, and where the nation goes from here.
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