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  • Business Insider | May. 7, 2024 | Featuring GIG A2

    This college town is experimenting with giving low-income entrepreneurs and gig workers $12,672, no strings attached

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  • Second Wave Media | Apr. 30, 2024 | Featuring Child care research

    Early Education Community of Practice brings unified message to state focus on early childhood care

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  • Business Insider | Apr. 29, 2024 | Featuring GIG A2, Rx Kids

    11 states with guaranteed basic-income programs that give residents hundreds of dollars a month, no strings attached

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    The Alpena News | Apr. 24, 2024 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Column: Solving poverty within reach

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  • Associated Press | Apr. 16, 2024 | Featuring Jeffrey Morenoff

    Home values rising in Detroit, especially for Black homeowners, study shows

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  • Rx Kids launch press conference. From left to right: Mama Sol, Ridgway White, Luke Shaefer, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Flint mom, Alana Turner, Mona Hanna-Attisha, Teresa Woodruff, Sheldon Neeley, a Flint mom, Day Austin, and Jim Ananich.

    Michigan Advance | Apr. 15, 2024 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Forum explores Flint’s effort to combat poverty using cash payments for mothers and infants

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  • The Alpena News | Apr. 11, 2024 | Featuring Poverty Solutions

    Column: Kids should not be left behind

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  • Detroit Free Press | Apr. 6, 2024 | Featuring Michigan Evictions Project

    Program that has prevented thousands of evictions in Michigan is running out of money

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    Minneapolis Star Tribune | Apr. 6, 2024 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Could Minnesota be among the first states to offer a basic income program?

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  • WDET Created Equal | Apr. 4, 2024 | Featuring Amanda Nothaft

    What Detroit’s credit bump says about the financial health of the city, residents

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