A WSU researcher shares the story of how a project participation stipend paid to Detroiters in HUD housing inadvertently triggered an increase in their rent.
Health and Welfare
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Planned Parenthood offers vasectomies in Michigan as abortion access drops
The organization is seeing rising demand for ‘permanent birth control’ in the years following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn national abortion rights.
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EPA drops health cost calculations for air pollution: How it could harm Detroiters
The agency will no longer consider health costs and deaths prevented when reducing two major pollutants, but will account for costs to industry.
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Detroiters grapple with unknowns as lead, arsenic found at demo sites
The 59 contaminated lots whose addresses the city has revealed span across Detroit and involve demolitions conducted within the past two years.
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Sheffield taps new leaders to helm Detroit’s fight against poverty
Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield plans to reshuffle several 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 helm.
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Michigan leaders, legislators vow to improve nursing homes after Bridge report
Two Republican candidates for governor and at least one lawmaker promise changes following a two-day Bridge series laying out neglect, abuse and short staffing in Michigan nursing homes. Another lawmaker, a Democrat, says the key is in staff pay.
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Bridge Michigan investigation: Aging in Michigan comes with challenges, few solutions
Senior Health Reporter Robin Erb spent months digging into the support systems around the state that exist for elderly adults and found little hope.
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Detroit air quality declines due to winter weather patterns: What the forecast says
Michigan is in a warmer weather pattern that traps pollution at the surface, a meteorologist tells Planet Detroit.
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Michigan doctors criticize changes to US childhood vaccination schedule
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing the number of shots it recommends for American kids. Michigan public health experts say the decision is ‘not based on science.’
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Rx Kids program expanding to help moms and babies in Detroit
Rx Kids offers $1,500 in cash assistance during mid-pregnancy and then $500 per month for up to a year of the baby’s life and already operates in 20 communities across Michigan.