Understanding How Poverty Affects Water Affordability in Detroit By shifting the focus to healing, rather than punishment, the criminal justice system can simultaneously address the root causes of offending behavior and improve lives while enhancing public safety. The project: Over-criminalization and reliance on retributive punishment have resulted in a criminal justice system that entrenches poverty and harms those on the margins. Providing Opportunity, Not Punishment: Implementing A Pilot Functional Sentencing Program in Southeast Michigan This project gathered in-depth, qualitative information about the impact of decision-making among front-line financial service employees. But studies have shown that bias plays a role in the banking system, which may impact consumers most in need of financial services. The project: Access to banking and credit are important tools in overcoming poverty. “It Depends”: How Discretion in the Financial System Contributes to Exclusion and Marginalization These debts accrue in a variety of ways from attempting to climb the ladder of opportunity (student loans), seeking stability for one’s family (housing), making ends meet when money is tight (credit cards), getting sick or injured (health… The project: Household debt has been on the rise in the U.S. Systems and structures of poverty – the profit of debt Network Structures: Buildings, Publics, and the Internet The ‘Community Tech Workers’: A Community-Driven Model to Support Economic Mobility by Bridging the Digital Divide -Chronic Absenteeism of Michigan Homeless Children.-Michigan School Discipline Rates Among Homeless Students.-Faculty Grant Program to Prevent and Alleviate Poverty.-Confronting and Combating Racism Grant Program.Understanding Communities of Deep Disadvantage.
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