Michigan’s migrant farmworkers are the backbone of the country’s second-most diverse agricultural economy. Social and labor protections for them fall short.
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By relying heavily on privately run organizations to deliver social services, the government employs fewer people, reducing the size of its bureaucracy. But these partnerships can flounder.
It’s hard to start living on your own after turning 18 and aging out of foster care.
Eliminating poverty has not been a major campaign issue during the 2024 presidential campaign.
There is ample evidence that poor oral health plays a role in many chronic diseases.
When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
Since nutrition standards were strengthened in 2010, eating at school provides many students with healthier food than is available cheaply elsewhere. Plus, reducing stigma increases the number of kids getting fed.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed tax credit is part of a trend toward public support for family caregiving.
Marriage on its own won’t do away with child poverty, and in fact it can create even more instability for low-income families.
The stigma around poverty and government benefits can make those initiatives less effective.
Family caregivers who have stronger support networks and positive communication with loved ones tend to be more resilient.
Republicans and Democrats have committed to making this family-friendly government benefit a little more generous. Unless lawmakers act, it will get much smaller in 2026.
Questions about food insecurity can be less straightforward than they appear.
The share of low-income US families who sometimes or often didn’t have enough food to eat fell from 24.5% to 22.5% between late April and late July of 2020, a research team found.
Funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children quickly halts during government shutdowns.
The law changed older adults’ caregiving behavior because their children became more able to take paid time off work to care for their own newborns.
Increasing the number of older people with both Medicaid and Medicare would mean fewer of them would be forced to skimp on the care and treatment they need.
The health coverage program’s enrollment soared during the three years after March 2020 due to temporary policies adopted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
People who have experienced domestic violence can have trouble finding and keeping jobs because of physical injuries and their abusers’ efforts to sabotage their employment.
If Congress and the White House fail to take action, Social Security beneficiaries would see a sudden 23% cut in their monthly checks in 2034.
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