Started in Flint, the program gives a cash allotment to parents during pregnancy and a monthly payment for the first six or ...

In Detroit, advocates of increasing play among Black young people have partnered with some of the city’s largest businesses ...

Building a stronger Detroit means stabilizing housing, using vacant land to benefit the public and investing in social ...

And those that remained often became rental housing rather than owner-occupied, said Sam Stragand, a program manager for University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions initiative working in Detroit.

Global Citizen NOW, the high-profile international summit for ending extreme poverty, is coming to Detroit this summer. The nonprofit announced April 30 that its first-ever "Global Citizen NOW ...

"This city has a tapestry of the old and the new, and Detroit should be seen like this. We're done with the poverty porn. We're done with seeing the dilapidated buildings. The same thing used to ...

Should the Detroit Pistons win the next two games to force a Game 7 at Madison Square Garden, fans hoping to see that event live will also need to pay a hefty sum. In an article by the New York ...

which could in turn create more jobs and more opportunities to lift more of its residents out of poverty. The new population growth moved Detroit ahead of Portland, Ore., as the 26th-largest city ...

A recent study from the University of Michigan Poverty Solutions found that homeowners in the city gained $700 million in new home wealth in 2023. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said at a March press ...

Weisenburger, who was recently appointed by Pope Francis to lead the Archdiocese of Detroit, was among those ... For me, Francis of Assisi is the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who ...

DETROIT, MI – A second Democrat is looking ... said he grew up in “abject poverty” in India, telling MLive he started work at the age of 14 to help support his family. When he moved to ...