poverty

The ALICE (an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, and Employed) report looks at the number of households that fall below a basic cost-of-living standard. It found that nearly 1.6 million, or 39%, of Michigan households fell below the ALICE threshold in 2021.

Forty-three percent of Michigan households struggle to afford necessities like housing, childcare, food, health care and transportation.That’s according…

Matthew Desmond’s book “Evicted” is being read by incoming MSU students and East Lansing residents as this year’s “One Book, One Community” selection.…

The University of Michigan and Harvard University are teaming up to tackle poverty and opioid addiction in Detroit.The schools announced Wednesday they…

For more than a decade, proficiency skills among elementary students have been in steep decline, particularly in reading. The 2018 Michigan Kids Count…

Michigan's child poverty rate decreased to about 21 percent in 2016, but disparities among racial groups remain.The annual Kids Count Profile released…

The state Legislature began discussions Wednesday on the newest plan to make people work for Medicaid.The bill would require able-bodied adults to perform…

A new online map of Michigan has been developed to make large volumes of data about poverty and well-being easier to understand.The map was developed as…

Kathryn Edin, a co-author of the book “$2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America,” will speak in the WKAR-TV studios on Thursday.Kathryn Edin has…

A new report finds that only one in eight Michigan children who are eligible for free and reduced lunches during the school year are participating in…