UM: Poverty

By

The Detroit Free Press reports on the 35,000 people who crowded metro Detroit’s Cobo Center on Wednesday, a chaotic scene as they vied for applications to get stimulus money for help with mortgage payments and other bills. The article quotes Kristin Seefeldt, a research scientist for the National Poverty Center at UM’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy: “They may be able to keep up with current payments, but there’s always this back debt that they owe. People are struggling. They’re really struggling. Although, I would say many of them would say, ‘At least I have a roof over my head.’ ” [Source]