ANN ARBOR—The U.S. Census Bureau will release its new national poverty and health insurance figures Sept. 10, and University of Michigan experts are available to discuss the data. They include:

Sheldon Danziger, the Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy and director of the National Poverty Center (which is located in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy) is a scholar on poverty, income inequality, social welfare programs and policy. He can be reached at (734) 615-8321 or [email protected]

Reynolds Farley, professor emeritus at the Institute for Social Research, conducts research on U.S. population trends, focusing on racial differences, ethnicity and urban structure. He can be reached at (734) 763-3382 or [email protected]

Sandro Galea, director of the Center for Global Health, professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health, and a research professor at the Institute for Social Research. He co-authored a newly published study that found that the separation of racial groups into neighborhoods of differing poverty rates is strongly correlated with racial residential segregation. He can be reached at (734) 647-9741 or [email protected]

Laura Lein, dean at the School of Social Work and a professor of social work and anthropology, has conducted research on families in poverty, social welfare policies and programs, child care policies and programs, gender, race and ethnicity. She can be reached at (734) 764-5347 or [email protected]

Helen Levy, researcher at the Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health, is an expert on health economics, public finance and labor economics. Some of her work explores the reasons why some households do not have health insurance. She can be reached at (734) 615-9587 or [email protected]

Kristin Seefeldt, assistant director at the National Poverty Center, has conducted research and published articles on various social policy issues, including process analysis and field research of welfare and employment and training policies and programs as well as employment outcomes for low-income women and welfare recipients. She can be reached at (734) 615-3802 or [email protected]