Affiliate Professor Kristin Seefeldt and Lecturer Trevor Bechtel spoke to the Ann Arbor Metropolis Council earlier this month a couple of new program which would offer a common primary revenue to 100 Ann Arbor residents engaged in some type of entrepreneurship. This system is a partnership between town and U-M’s Poverty Options, who will administer this system and analyze the findings.
“We wish to see how this assured revenue permits this group to enhance their private financial safety and wellbeing, whether or not that’s by increasing their enterprise efforts or by scaling again,” mentioned Seefeldt, who will lead the analysis efforts. Assistant Professor Rebeccah Sokol is a co-principal investigator. Affiliate Professor Terri Friedline and Professors Joe Ryan and Trina Shanks are additionally on the analysis crew.
“We all know some group members have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic,” mentioned Councilmember Linh Track, MSW ’04, who advocated for the initiative. “This program acknowledges and addresses this inequity in order that program members can have a combating probability to proceed to reside and work in Ann Arbor.”
