Poverty isn’t just a statistic, but a complicated web of challenges encountered by millions worldwide. Yet, it’s often ...

Mayor Mary Sheffield is reshuffling city departments and has created new positions to tackle poverty and homelessness in the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A conversation with Tomeka Hart Wigginton, president and ...

Last summer PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley and author Cornel West embarked on an 18-city poverty tour to highlight the hardship of poor people. Despite a record number of Americans — one in two — ...

Historically, the child welfare system has prioritized disruptive and stressful interventions as the best solution for families in crisis. Turning a ship as massive as our current system won’t happen ...

Mayor Mary Sheffield tapped a U of M expert to spearhead her sweeping policy agenda on the systemic issue of poverty. Why it ...

Detroit’s leadership doesn’t need more data to be reminded of what to do right now. Despite available data that has shown ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Amanda Nothaft, director of data and evaluation at ...

One in two children in Detroit lives in poverty, and roughly one-third of adults across the city live below the poverty line.