To qualify, Michigan residents must be either a renter with a contracted lease or a homeowner and meet income requirements.
Health and Welfare
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Health and Welfare
COVID-19 vaccines for kids are mired in uncertainty amid conflicting federal guidance
Uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, and potentially other vaccines, may worsen in the coming weeks and months.
Posted inEnvironment, Health and Welfare
Q&A: Mary-Jacqueline Muli, the Climate Justice Nurse, on how climate change manifests at the patient’s bedside
The floods in Detroit in 2021 are when Mary-Jacqueline Muli “really got activated,” she says. The cardiac ICU nurse is the founder of the Climate Justice Nurse.
Posted inHealth and Welfare, Political and Public Policy Information
Supporters of fast-growing cash aid program urge lawmakers to take it statewide
Rx Kids is among dozens of programs across the country experimenting with providing direct cash payments to people with the greatest need.
Posted inEducation, Health and Welfare
Screen time causing eye problems for Michigan kids. Could more recess help?
New research links screen time to child eyesight problems, adding fuel to a push to encourage more recess — and ban cell phones — in Michigan schools.
Posted inEnvironment, Health and Welfare
DTE Energy lawyer: Utility not liable for Zug Island facility in Clean Air Act lawsuit
The EPA’s position of holding the parent company liable would “destroy” the point of corporations, and “pierce the corporate veil,” an attorney for DTE Energy and EES Coke Battery says in federal court.
Posted inHealth and Welfare, Police & Public Safety
‘I just couldn’t stop crying’: How prison affects Black men’s mental health long after they’ve been released
Black men who have been incarcerated have elevated rates of PTSD, depression and psychological distress.
Posted inEnvironment, Health and Welfare
Detroit’s Eden Park: A $21 million bet on health, wellness in polluted community
Residents of the 48217 zip code hope to counteract the area’s industrial pollution with clean energy solutions at the Eden Park development.
Posted inHealth and Welfare
Michigan Head Start, health programs scramble amid immigration crackdown
The Trump administration reinterpreted a nearly 30-year-old welfare law to bar many legal and undocumented immigrants from federally backed health centers, Head Start and mental health programs.
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Michigan program aims to expand benefits for child care workers
Child care providers can enroll through the Small Business Association of Michigan for health, life and retirement benefits