poverty

47 percent of local leaders support right to workA report released today from the University of Michigan says 47 percent of Michigan's local government…

Over at our State of Opportunity website, we've been on Gap Watch: achievement gaps, literacy gaps, technology gaps, gender gaps, etc.Our latest…

Charles Blow, a New York Times columnist who himself grew up in semi-poverty, noted over the weekend that the United States is seeing a rapid explosion of…

New U.S. Census data shows Michigan’s median income and poverty rates holding steady.The Census Bureau released the results of its latest American…

The Michigan League for Public Policy released its Labor Day report today. The report shows Michigan increased the number of workers earning a poverty…

More than 90% of school children in Lake County qualify for free or reduced price lunch. To make sure they continue to eat healthy meals once school is…

Michigan has the highest rate of child poverty in the Great Lakes region, according to a report released Monday morning.As Michigan Radio’s Jake Neher…

Childhood poverty rate high in MichiganThis year’s Kids Count report from the Michigan League for Public Policy and the Annie E. Casey Foundation says…

There's a three story pile of black petroleum coke big enough to cover an entire city block piling up in Southwest Detroit. It's a by-product of oil sands…

When one thinks of poverty in America, or in Michigan, what image comes to mind? Where are poor people living?Chances are, an image of an inner-city…