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  • Outlier Media | Nov. 4, 2025 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Mary Sheffield will be Detroit’s new mayor. Here are some of her top priorities

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  • Yahoo News | Oct. 24, 2025 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    As SNAP pause looms, communities are rallying to help

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    CBS News | Oct. 24, 2025 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Michigan experts warn of rise in food insecurity amid federal government shutdown

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  • Michigan Public | Oct. 8, 2025 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Rx Kids gets $270 million in new state budget

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  • Wall Street Journal | Oct. 5, 2025 | Featuring Rx Kids

    Do Cash Payments Help Poor Families?

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  • Detroit News | Oct. 2, 2025 | Featuring Luke Shafer & Jennifer Erb-Downward

    Detroit backslides as majority of children fall below poverty line

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  • Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity | Sep. 24, 2025 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    New Directions for Data, Research, and Policy on Economic and Social Mobility

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  • The Guardian | Sep. 15, 2025 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’

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

    Mother Jones | Sep. 12, 2025 | Featuring Rx Kids

    The Cruel Catch-22 of Cash Aid

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  • Detroit News | Sep. 11, 2025 | Featuring Sam Stragand & Luke Shaefer

    Detroit’s poverty rate rises to highest number since 2017 amid city’s comeback

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