rural poverty

We do a lot of stories about what’s not working in education, but today we’re going to flip the script and talk about a school that’s doing really well,…

We don't do a lot of movie reviews at State of Opportunity. In fact, we've only ever done one.What makes the documentary Rich Hill worth watching is also…

What's life like for Michigan's rural poor? The folks over at Bridge Magazine have been looking into that question and the answer is far from rosy. We're…

College is expensive. For some families, it’s prohibitively expensive. Several school districts are trying to follow the Kalamazoo Promise model by…

More than 90% of school children in Lake County qualify for free or reduced price lunch. To make sure they continue to eat healthy meals once school is…

Lake County in central northern Michigan is the poorest part of the state, with nearly half of all its children living in poverty. That’s according to the…

I'm in Lake County this week and next working on a series of stories about rural poverty in Michigan. When it comes to child well-being, this part of the…

When I think of kids in poverty, my mind more often than not conjures up an image of a child in some kind of urban setting. And our stories at State of…