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Poor vs. low-income: Does it matter which word we use?
Who is poor? Who is low-income? It’s a question our team and others who report on issues of poverty grapple with a lot. My news editor and I did a quick…
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Michigan still subjecting juveniles to solitary confinement
By now, many of you know about the tragic story out of the Bronx this weekend. Kalief Browder was sent to Rikers Island in 2010 when he was 16 years old.…
What does Michigan's new adoption law mean for kids and families already in the system?
Michigan’s new faith-based adoption law has come under intense criticism from those who claim it discriminates against same-sex couples. The law allows…
How Philadelphia is helping its homeless during the Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday in Philadelphia, and it's expected to draw tens of thousands of people to the city.And while…
Who's allowed to volunteer in schools? It depends.
Who gets to volunteer at your kids’ school? Maybe it’s a question you haven’t thought about much. But when we learned that the guy who shot and killed two…
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Out From the Shadows: Living Undocumented
The following is a transcript of the State of Opportunity documentary Out From the Shadows: Living Undocumented, which you can hear at 3 p.m. and 10 p.m.…
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A woman is turning her blighted Highland Park neighborhood into a sustainable eco-village
Highland Park, Michigan was the birthplace of the automotive moving assembly line. The Highland Park Ford Plant produced the Model T, the world's first…
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Families caught in middle of "broken" immigration system
Politicians proclaim it. People argue about it. We hear it often: "Our immigration system is broken." But what exactly does that mean? That’s a tough…
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Fatal house fire raises red flags about human smuggling
In January of 2016, a house fire killed five young men in the basement of a Novi home owned by Roger Tam and Ada Lei. They were later found to be…
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CEO: Michigan businesses need foreign workers for high-skill jobs
Much of the national debate about immigration reform focuses on unskilled foreign-born workers. But there’s another side: the highly-skilled foreign-born…
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