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Led by partners Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha at the MSU-Hurley Pediatric Public Health Initiative and Dr. Luke Shaefer, faculty director of the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions center, Rx Kids is a transformational effort to address child poverty and health equity.

The director of Rx Kids explains an innovative program to reduce health inequities and disparities in Flint, one of the poorest cities in Michigan

Many people won't apply for unemployment insurance, because a lot of them don't even know they're eligible for benefits.

A new report from the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions Team says that U.S. officers kill more people in days than other countries kill in years.

People must provide documents, complete confusing applications, prove theyre eligible and update information for social safety net programs.

In one of her first public appearances since a cancer diagnosis, the former chancellor received recognition from another Big Ten school with a room named in her honor.

In 2020, more than 37 million Americans lived in poverty according to new data from the U.S Census Bureau. That number doesnt include those who are above the poverty line and struggling to make a living.We discuss what it means to be poor and how people fall below the poverty line, and the difficulties associated with it. This is the first part of our discussion of poverty in America for our series "The Price of Poverty."Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and ...

Claims of “extreme poverty” in the U.S. are based on radically defective data. In fact, poverty among single parents has fallen substantially over the past two decades.

Here’s how it happened.

Voters see it as a strong Democratic accomplishment, and a key Republican vulnerability.