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The obsession with the "deserving poor" reaches new heights and hits TV
Journalists try to stay away from editorializing, but I'm going to break the rule here and say I'm 100 percent comfortable calling CBS's new poverty porn…
How do you interrupt bias in the classroom?
Last October, the Harvard Business Review published an essay on Hacking Tech's Diversity Problem.In the piece, Joan C. Williams of the University of…
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Infowire fills the information gap and meets the news needs of families struggling to make ends meet. Get all Infowire alerts by texting INFOWIRE to…
Child abuse reporting - sometimes over zealous, frequently too late
There was a protest at the University of Michigan hospital earlier this week about what one family says is a flawed child abuse investigation case. The…
New law tying cash benefits to truancy missing definition of truancy
Governor Snyder recently signed into a law a set of rules about absences from school. These laws don’t affect every kid and family. But families living in…
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Infowire fills the information gap and meets the news needs of families struggling to make ends meet. Get all Infowire alerts by texting INFOWIRE to…
What today's Supreme Court housing decision means for civil rights and moving out of the inner city
The U.S. Supreme Court issued two opinions today that, in a practical matter, mean more to low-income families than to anyone else.There is the Affordable…
Teens make the best teachers when it comes to sex and consent
In response to what has been a national movement to address sexual assault on college campuses, the University of Michigan released results from a campus…
This dad says the foster care system saved his life – and the lives of his kids
Last week I went to Washtenaw County's first-ever Family Reunification Day. The event, held in honor of National Reunification Month in June, celebrated…
For many kids, mental health care in Michigan means psychotropic drugs
Dr. April Ping is a pediatrician in Livingston county. She's known by foster parents in her area as somebody who understands the complications the foster…
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