Local Government Officials’ Assessments of Community Poverty in the Upper Peninsula

April 2024
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Mia Brodeur, University of Michigan

Local government leaders in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.) are more likely to report significant unmet needs among their residents for anti-poverty resources compared with local leaders in the Lower Peninsula. U.P. leaders are also more likely to believe that their government is doing ‘too little’ to address local poverty.