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

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, ...

Launched earlier this month, the program gives no-strings-attached funds to new and expectant parents.

What's good for babies is good for Detroit, writes Mayor Mary Sheffield.

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 ...

Newly sworn-in Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield will support families with newborns through cash assistance as part of the expanding Rx Kids initiative. Just days into her administration, newly sworn-in ...

Days into her first week as the first woman to serve as mayor of Detroit, Mary Sheffield is looking to assist expectant mothers and children currently under the poverty line. On Monday (Jan. 5), ...

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 ...

Sometimes the worst thing about elections is that defeated candidates fade into the political shadows, taking with them the good ideas they offered and the issues they championed on the campaign trail ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Luke Shaefer and Benita Miller have a bold charge from Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield in their new jobs at the city: reduce poverty ...