$19M in stimulus funds for U-M retirement study creates 60 jobs

Thursday, November 5, 2009 | Source: Concentrate

Who would have thought a big study about retirement would put so many people to work? Researchers at the University of Michigan, that's who.

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$19 million buys a lot these days, including a lot of research at the University of Michigan.

The U-M Health & Retirement Study, conducted by the university's Institute for Social Research, recently won four grants totaling $19 million from the federal stimulus package. That funding will translate into 60 new direct jobs and lots of other work for hungry researchers across the nation.

"We manage the activity centrally here in Ann Arbor," says David Weir, research professor for the U-M Institute for Social Research.

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