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Finding a home in Grand Rapids is becoming more difficult, especially for renters with low incomes. According to Zillow.com, the average cost of a rental…

In the past few years, you may have heard the term "lunch shaming" being thrown around. It's basically the practice of penalizing students who don't have…

Summer is finally here, and students are enjoying some time off from school. But come September, many students will be several weeks behind where they…

Dr. Vincent Felitti, father of the seminal Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study that has informed so much of State of Opportunity’s reporting and…

In the wave of data about higher education that the White House released last weekend, one fact emerges that was already painfully clear: The “haves” in…

It’s a serious question some school officials in Saginaw, Ann Arbor and neighboring Muskegon have asked themselves in the last couple of weeks. The…

How do you navigate life on the outside after you’ve been locked up in prison for years? That’s a question more than 6,000 federal inmates recently faced…

Is there a particular song that lifts your spirits every time you hear it? Or one that always brings back not-too-fond memories?According to Yahoo!…

(This story originally appeared on Michigan Radio on Sept. 6, 2013.) What if something other than jobs could rebuild Detroit?What if the purpose of…

About 24 million people in the U.S. suffer from asthma. And more than 6 million of them are children.The percentage of U.S. kids with asthma doubled in…