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Violent Crime and Growing Homelessness Are Destroying Ypsilanti and Its Small Businesses
9/20/23: This story was edited to remove a mention of the Ypsilanti Public Library.
by Monica Ross-Williams
“I’m 83-years-old, have lived in Ypsilanti all my life and I’m afraid to visit downtown Ypsilanti,” an Ypsilanti community…
Watch: Shannon McFall and County Sheriff Candidate Ken Magee Talk Spike in Murders and Gun Violence
The Ann Arbor Independent's "Urban Exile" columnist Shannon McFall lives in Pittsfield Township and vlogs about race, local, county and national politics. He shares commentaries with The Ann Arbor Independent. Tune in to watch a video…
Sen. Jeff Irwin’s Proposed Elimination of “Assets Based Test” for State Food Assistance is Not Good Enough
Note: According to a Feb. 27 article in MLive.com, "Senate Bill 35 introduced in January would delete the asset testing requirement used by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to determine eligibility for the…
Watch: Why’s the County Prosecutor on a Black Men’s Health Panel Hosted by a Child Sexual Predator?
Note: These videos contain profanity, marijuana use and may not be suitable for children.
The Ann Arbor Independent's "Urban Exile" columnist Shannon McFall lives in Pittsfield Township and vlogs about race, local, county and national…
Watch: Infant Mortality Rate for Black Babies in Washtenaw County 4x Higher Than for White Babies
https://youtu.be/7NpYswbCoAU
"This math ain't mathin'."--Shannon McFall
Note: These videos contain profanity, marijuana use and may not be suitable for children.
Ann Arbor Independent "Urban Exile" columnist Shannon McFall…
Do You Qualify? Over 1M in Michigan Have Health Coverage Through State-Funded Healthy Michigan Program
Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that the Healthy Michigan Plan is now providing health care coverage to 1,000,456 million Michiganders, marking the first time more than one million people have opted for affordable and accessible…
The Federal Poverty Line: Half of Americans Face Economic Hardship
by Dr. Celine-Marie Pascale
Michael Chase works two jobs in southeast Ohio: one as a hotel night clerk and one as retail support – sorting through donations, setting new merchandise out, cleaning – at a nonprofit.
His schedule is not…
How Do You Solve Poverty? Throw Money at the Problem.
by Susan Demas, Michigan Advance
If there’s one enduring myth in America, it’s that there’s nothing we can really do to end poverty.
Most policy prescriptions during the last few decades — from setting up Byzantine barriers to…
Opinion: Michigan’s Coronavirus Response Must Confront Poverty and Racism
by Amy J. Schulz, PhD, MPH, Barbara A. Israel, DrPH, MPH, Linda Chatters, PhD, MSW, Roshanak Mehdipanah, PhD, Enrique Neblett, PhD
Emerging evidence indicates communities in southeast Michigan are hard hit by the COVID-19…
“Lost in America”: Film Review
by Frank Scheck
You'll find it hard to walk past a homeless person again after seeing this disturbing documentary.
105 minutes
The growing crisis of youth homelessness is explored in Rotimi Rainwater's documentary, executive…
