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  • Flint Rx Kids - A prescription for Health, Hope, and Opportunity

    MLive | Jan. 29, 2025 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Rx Kids provides nearly $6M to Flint babies, families in first year

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  • Fox 17 West Michigan | Jan. 19, 2025 | Featuring Amanda Nothaft

    What’s behind the child care worker shortage

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  • Science | Jan. 17, 2025 | Featuring Alexandra Murphy

    National Academies panel embraces new index to measure transportation ‘insecurity’

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  • Democrat & Chronicle | Jan. 2, 2025 | Featuring Rx Kids

    Will paying new mothers cash reduce child poverty? What to know about guaranteed income

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  • Flint Rx Kids - A prescription for Health, Hope, and Opportunity

    Bridge Michigan | Dec. 27, 2024 | Featuring Rx Kids

    Opinion | Rx Kids should help, but it can’t do it alone

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  • Baby in onesie with Rx Kids heart logo on it

    Brookings Institution | Dec. 20, 2024 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Scaling up prenatal and infant cash prescriptions to eradicate deep infant poverty in the United States

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  • Planet Detroit | Dec. 12, 2024 | Featuring Paid Family Leave Report

    Michigan Senate pushes FLOC program for paid family leave

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  • Luke Shaefer profile photo

    Michigan Advance | Dec. 11, 2024 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Supreme Court order complicates conversation as paid family leave bills move to Senate floor

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  • Next City | Dec. 9, 2024 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Post-Partum Depression Is Costing Us Billions. Can Cities Help?

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  • Detroit Free Press | Dec. 8, 2024 | Featuring Rx Kids

    Moms are getting cash each month to ease financial troubles. Does it work?

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