Better Government Lab helps states navigate new SNAP pressures without losing sight of access

As tablets and laptops have become common classroom tools, schools continue to wrestle with another device: the cell phone.

Counties with larger Black and Hispanic populations see significantly less spending for critical nonprofit human services—including food banks, housing assistance, and homelessness shelters—than predo...

ANN ARBOR – A new systematic scoping review published in Contraception finds that while there is a growing body of evidence on minors’ experiences with abortion, there are many missed opportunities to...

Join Brookings for a discussion on America’s changing demographics and growing diversity, featuring new research on how shifts in race, age, and population are shaping the nation’s economy, politics, ...

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Reynolds (Ren) Farley, a sociologist and demographer who used Census data to illuminate the persistence of racial segregation in American cities, died on September 12, at 88. He was...

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September marks Suicide Prevention Awareness Month; University of Michigan researchers are using new methods that go beyond the numbers to shape understanding and prevention.Every September, Suicide P...

Three new postdoctoral fellows introduced themselves and their research at this fall’s kickoff brown-bag seminar at the University of Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC). Here’s a look at their w...

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Dr. Charles Katulamu’s research career began with a question about who gets maternal health care. As an undergraduate in Uganda, he wrote a thesis examining differences in maternal and prenatal care u...

Rick Lowe’s largest solo exhibition at a U.S. art museum transforms the visual language of finance into a public artwork and exhibition about Black progress.

How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps

Public health has become remarkably good at mapping geographic disparities in health. Color-coded maps of infant mortality, childhood lead exposure,

From Xueqing (Zoey) Wang, PhD in Demography and Social Policy from Princeton University, Ann Arbor, MI, US

Researchers seek to reconnect with original participants to study cognitive aging and health among AmericansANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan is launching an ambitious 25-year follow-up to...

ANN ARBOR—More than half of U.S. public parks are within two miles of an active industrial facility that handles toxic chemicals, according to a new University of Michigan study.About 80,000 such park...