Detroit’s new human services leaders Luke Shaefer and Benita Miller talk about how they’ll fight poverty and homelessness ...

The proposal, unveiled during Sheffield’s $3 billion budget presentation to Detroit City Council, would raise wages for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield plans to reshuffle city departments focused on health and human services and has tapped Luke Shaefer, ...

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield focused her first full week on the job on poverty ― the most pressing challenge facing the city’s residents and the one issue that could define her entire tenure in office ...

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Detroit's new anti-poverty chief, Luke Shaefer, plans to build on the city's momentum by making targeted changes to systems that work against low-income families. Why it matters: Poverty can be ...

Detroit's new mayor, Mary Sheffield, is prioritizing poverty reform, particularly in response to families living in cars due to housing insecurity. She announced the appointment of Dr. Luke Schaefer ...

The city life isn’t cutting it for many families that once called major metropolises like Atlanta, Chicago and Cleveland home. But Detroit has been hit the hardest, losing a staggering amount of its ...

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield plans to reshuffle city departments focused on health and human services and has tapped Luke Shaefer, a well-known Michigan poverty and social policy scholar, to take the ...