poverty

How do we break the cycle of poverty? What can we, as a state and a nation, do to help poor children escape poverty and move up and out? Jamie Fogel is...

Gang members across the country aren’t just carrying guns. They’re also armed with Twitter and Facebook. That’s the focus of a study whose title really...

You might have heard of Camp Take Notice, the tent city in Ann Arbor that was forced to close nearly three years ago. Viviana Pernot has made a short...

The child poverty rate is a critical indicator of our nation’s economic and social health. Child poverty costs the U.S. some $500 billion annually in...

LIVE COVERAGE of the speech and the Democratic response begins tonight at 7:00 on IPR News Radio.Gov. Rick Snyder will announce during his State of the…

A controversial plan to build a homeless shelter off Eighth Street, near the troubled Traverse City business corridor, faces a critical Tuesday night. The…

A coalition of churches now hopes to open a shelter in Traverse City with 90 beds sometime early in 2015. Safe Harbor submitted formal paperwork…

When we think about poverty, we tend to picture cities. But a recent series in Bridge Magazine brought attention to poverty in rural communities in...

A state elections board has rejected a petition to raise Michigan’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.A bipartisan majority of the Board of State Canvassers…

Tuesday night, new rules for homeless shelters in Traverse City moved a step closer to becoming law. Planning Commissioners voted five-to-three to send…