The Goodwill Inn in Traverse City is replacing its food pantry with prepared meals. The plan is to prepare nutritious meals and freeze them on sealed trays that can be...
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Big, wet snowflakes dropped steadily as a local homeless shelter service was officially closing for the season.
Safe Harbor has provided a roof over the heads of...
A state House budget panel is recommending cutting more than a thousand human service workers. They handle things like child welfare and food assistance.
“I don’t want to...
A wintertime homeless shelter service in Traverse City is extending its season at least a week because of the cold spring.
Area churches take turns hosting...
Democrats in Lansing want to restore the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income residents. The credit has been cut to less than a third of what it was a couple years ago...
A bill in the state Legislature would boost Michigan’s minimum wage to ten dollars an hour. It was introduced just a day after President Obama called for a federal minimum wage...
By Bob Allen
State officials are finding more victims of abuse and neglect in Michigan. That’s according to a new Kids Count report.
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Last night, Grand Traverse County officials found a way to restore funding for meals delivered to the homebound elderly.
The county Commission on Aging had decided...
The state is expanding a children’s dental insurance program. It now covers low-income children in all but eight southern Michigan counties.
...A new policy takes effect today in Michigan that links a family’s welfare benefits to children’s school attendance. Families that apply or re-apply for cash assistance will have to...
