poverty rate

"This has never been done before on a city-wide scale — to disrupt poverty when it's most toxic," said Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, director of Michigan State University-Hurley Children's Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, who leads the program...

Luke Shaefer, Marketplace: “We saw big increases in poverty across every sociodemographic group,” said Luke Shaefer, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. “The biggest was among children. We saw child poverty more than...