Detroit Poverty

Poverty High For Kids Across Michigan, But Especially In Detroit

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 01.24.2012

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An annual report examining the living conditions for children across Michigan finds high poverty rates satewide, and even bleaker news for kids living...

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'Less Talk... More Action' Empowerment Tour - Progress Report

Ryan Mack | Posted 01.08.2012

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Ryan Mack

there is an overwhelming need within the Black community, and those of all colors who suffer from poverty around the world, to focus less on how we arrived at our current economic state, and more on tangible solutions.

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Ivory Price, Detroit Teen, Works To Fix Up Neighborhood With BuildOn

Posted 05.25.2011

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For Ivory Price, a teenager growing up in an impoverished Detroit neighborhood, tales of the city's heyday are a distant dream. Now, as a volunteer fo...

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Detroit Wants To Save Itself - By Shrinking

AP | DAVID RUNK | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT -- Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for tur...

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