Sheldon Danziger, the H. J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of public policy, is a scholar of poverty, income inequality, social welfare programs and policy. He directs the National Poverty Center at the U-M Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He can be reached at (734) 615-8321 or sheldond@umich.edu.

Donald Grimes, senior research associate and economist, Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy, specializes in economic forecasting and regional economic development, especially in Michigan and the Midwest. He can be reached at (734) 730-3214 or dgrimes@umich.edu

Gregory Saltzman, adjunct research scientist at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and professor of economics and management at Albion College, is an expert on union-management relations, labor law, health insurance, and affirmative action. He can be reached at (734) 971-7596, (517) 629-0422 or saltzman@umich.edu

Matthew Shapiro, the Lawrence R. Klein Collegiate Professor of Economics, is an expert in macroeconomics, particularly tax policy, monetary policy, fiscal stimulus, and the quality of federal economic statistics. He was a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. He can be reached at (734) 764-5419 or shapiro@umich.edu

Joel Slemrod, director of the Office of Tax Policy Research and the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Ross School of Business, is a renowned authority on the economic effects of taxation, international aspects of taxation, tax compliance and tax law enforcement, and tax reform and savings behavior in the United States and worldwide. He serves as a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers, Joint Committee on Taxation Revenue Estimating Advisory Board and Internal Revenue Service Consultants’ Panel for Statistics of Income. He can be reached at (734) 936-3914 or jslemrod@umich.edu.