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

    Speaking of Kids podcast | Jan. 31, 2024 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Prescribing away poverty

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  • Nature Portfolio podcast | Jan. 26, 2024 | Featuring Catherine Thomas

    ‘People in poverty lack money. So let’s just give them money’

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  • Michigan Advance | Jan. 21, 2024 | Featuring Kristin Seefeldt

    Ann Arbor kicks off guaranteed income pilot program

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  • USA Today | Jan. 15, 2024 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Some low-income kids will get more food stamps this summer. But not in these states.

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

    MLive / The Flint Journal | Jan. 10, 2024

    First-of-its-kind cash prescription program for Flint mothers, newborns opens enrollment

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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.

    PBS NewsHour | Jan. 10, 2024

    Program aims to provide cash for pregnant women and families with newborns in Flint, Michigan

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  • Detroit News | Dec. 27, 2023 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    ‘Just getting by’: Michigan poverty rates well above national average, census data shows

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  • Luke Shaefer

    Bridge Michigan | Dec. 18, 2023 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Poverty rises in Michigan: State is now 13th nationwide

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  • Luke Shaefer

    Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity | Dec. 6, 2023 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Senators Cassidy, Hassan Stress Bipartisan Compromise

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  • The Daily Beast | Nov. 25, 2023 | Featuring Luke Shaefer

    Op-ed: Segregation Academies Show Us the Ugly Side of Vouchers

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