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Michigan's new solution for childhood poverty? Give moms cash.

Oct 19, 2026 Read the Crain's Detroit article

Child poverty isn’t just a moral issue, experts say. It also has lifetime implications for academic achievement, career earnings, mental and physical health, chance of incarceration, dependence on social programs, and life expectancy.

Rx Kids Baby Parade in Flint, MI 2025

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Cross-sector collaboration needed to address homeless student barriers, researchers say

Oct 1, 2026 K12 Dive

A report released by SchoolHouse Connection and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan in September found about 1 in 29 infants and toddlers experienced homelessness in 2023-24, and fewer than 1 in 10 were confirmed to have reached an early ...

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How to fix Michigan’s literacy crisis? Start with poverty and housing solutions, experts say

Oct 1, 2026 Chalkbeat Detroit

Researchers and advocates say Michigan officials are focused on literacy and growing overall educational achievement in the state but that should start with addressing students’ lives outside the classroom – especially those who are economically disa...

Jennifer Erb-Downward

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Detroit community violence intervention program shows positive results, study says

Sep 25, 2026 Michigan Public

Sam Stragand said that although the results couldn’t be directly attributed to the program, the decline of shootings in CVI zones was encouraging, especially since the rest of the city saw a smaller decline.

Mural: Detroit was made in the neighborhood

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Americans' incomes hit a record high in 2025. Now for the bad news.

Sep 15, 2026 CBS News

American households earned a record median income of $87,460 last year, according to new Census Bureau data. The catch? That figure is only slightly above the previous peak set in 2019.

Beyond School: Where to Focus Collective Action to Support Children in Poverty

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There are more homeless infants and toddlers in California. What does this mean for early learning programs and schools?

Sep 3, 2026 Ed Source

Nearly 86,000 of California’s children ages 0 to 3 — more than 5% of the state’s infants and toddlers — are estimated to have experienced homelessness in 2023-24, according to new data analysis by SchoolHouse Connection and Poverty Solutions at the U...

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Michigan homeless students struggle academically with more resources needed

Jul 21, 2026 MLive

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A Progressive Vision Is Possible if We Spend Money Thoughtfully Now

Jul 21, 2026 The New York Times

Group of children with face mask back at school after covid-19 quarantine and lockdown.

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Negotiations begin to create the Puerto Rican Laboratory of Public Opinion

Jul 21, 2026 Metro

Featuring Mara Ostfeld

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Created Equal: What rural areas and urban cities have in common

Jul 21, 2026 WDET

Featuring Luke Shaefer

Poster of The Injustice of Place

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Flint again most impoverished city in the nation, new census data shows

Jul 21, 2026 MLive

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Pandemic disproportionately affects the most vulnerable, and its impact is not over

Jul 21, 2026 Detroit Free Press

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Washtenaw County’s SummerWorks program is open for young adults to apply

Jul 21, 2026 Eastern Echo

Featuring Zoe Erb

6/7/17 Youth Summer Jobs Program Job Fair in the Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College (WCC).

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Rx Kids Aims to Lift Up the Children and Families of Flint

Jul 21, 2026 Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity

Featuring Luke Shaefer

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US incomes at record levels while poverty declines

Jul 21, 2026 The Financial Times

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Coronavirus and Poverty: A mother skips meals so her children can eat

Jul 21, 2026 New York Times

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Michigan teacher, student COVID-19 vaccinations are key to normal school year, doctors say

Jul 21, 2026 Detroit Free Press

Featuring Jeffrey Morenoff

Healthcare worker administering a vaccine to a masked adult.

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The Expanded Child Tax Credit Is Gone. The Battle Over It Remains.

Jul 21, 2026 New York Times

Featuring Luke Shaefer

Child Tax Credit payment check

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

Jul 21, 2026 Michigan Advance

Featuring Luke Shaefer

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Focus groups work towards bettering the K.I. Sawyer community

Jul 21, 2026 TV 6

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New U-M website helps families access expanded Child Tax Credit

Jul 21, 2026 Concentrate

The Child Tax Credit: What You Need to Know The new Child Tax Credit is worth $3,000 per year, per child ages 6–17 and $3,600 per year, per child under 6 years old. It will be paid out in regular payments, not once a year. If you have children unde...

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How the $1.1B program for COVID rental assistance succeeded, fell short for Detroiters

Jul 21, 2026 Outlier Media

Featuring The Eviction Machine

aerial view of Detroit homes

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

Jul 21, 2026 Michigan Advance

Featuring Luke Shaefer

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.

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New U-M Professorship to Support Social Justice Research, Action

Jul 21, 2026 The Jewish News

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Detroit census undercount is likely to hurt poor, disabled the most

Jul 21, 2026 Bridge Detroit

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Report: Homeless students are twice as likely to be suspended, expelled than statewide average

Jul 21, 2026 Michigan Advance

Featuring Jennifer Erb-Downward

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Ann Arbor wants to provide $525 a month to 100 entrepreneurs

Jul 21, 2026 Detroit Free Press

Featuring Kristin Seefeldt

Ann Arbor Deputy City Administrator John Fournier (left) and U-M Poverty Solutions Associate Director Kristin Seefeldt address city council about the guaraneed income proposal at a meeting on June 5, 2023.

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Senate Democrats have a plan that would cut child poverty nearly in half

Jul 21, 2026 Vox

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Coronavirus spreading faster in Detroit than nearly anywhere in United States

Jul 21, 2026 Bridge Magazine

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Homeless Students Are Being Undercounted in Detroit, and That’s Denying Their Right to an Education, U-M Report Says

Jul 21, 2026 WDET Detroit

Featuring Jennifer Erb-Downward

The Educational Implications of Homelessness and Housing Instability in Detroit