child poverty

Approximately eight percent of Washtenaw County residents receive SNAP benefits, some 26,000 individuals. In 2023, in Ann Arbor, approximately 19.7 percent of residents (25,610) lived below the poverty line. In Ypsilanti, 25.6 percent of…

THE 6.3 PERCENT unemployment rate in Michigan at the end of December 2014 was the lowest on record in a dozen years. Gov. Rick Snyder in his State of the State was quick to take credit for the improvement. Democrats attribute increased…