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COVID-era universal school lunches — where all kids were given free meals regardless of income, feeding an additional 10 million students nationwide — has ended.
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Data from the latest KIDS COUNT report shows improvements across a number of indicators, but Michigan still lags behind other states.
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A decrease in child poverty over the last two years is likely due to a number of COVID-era policies, the most recent annual report from the Michigan League for Public Policy has found.
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Researchers say many women who seek abortion do so for economic reasons. They say barring abortion care will further strain low-income families.
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The ALICE report focusing on the state’s children is based on micro-level U.S. Census data from 2019. It found that while only 17 percent of Michigan children lived below the official federal poverty level, another 27 percent live in working but economically precarious homes.
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An estimated 22,444 high school youth didn’t have a stable place to live across the state of Michigan in 2019. That’s according to a new report from the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions initiative.
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Roughly 175,000 Hoosier children under the age of 18 are at risk of slipping back into poverty or deeper into poverty if the expanded federal child tax…
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Some Hoosiers received the first monthly installment of a child tax credit Thursday. It’s a one-year-only program from the American Rescue Plan designed…