Detroit's new anti-poverty chief, Luke Shaefer, plans to build on the city's momentum by making targeted changes to systems ...

Sheffield's administration is establishing new departments aimed at reducing poverty and has joined Rx Kids, a program that ...

Mayor Mary Sheffield is reshuffling city departments and has created new positions to tackle poverty and homelessness in the ...

Volunteers, outreach workers and city leaders fanned out across Detroit to count the number of people living without ...

Mayor Mary Sheffield tapped a U of M expert to spearhead her sweeping policy agenda on the systemic issue of poverty. Why it matters: Her announcement of Luke Shaefer becoming the city's first chief ...

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield expects to ensure the city's resurgence benefits not just some, but all Detroiters.

Rx Kids, a program that offers pregnant moms cash assistance, is growing quickly in Michigan. It will come to Detroit next.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On her first day as Detroit's mayor, Mary Sheffield — the first woman elected to lead the city in its more than 300-year history — ...

Shaefer will oversee the Detroit Health Department, the Office of Immigrant Affairs and Economic Inclusion, and a newly created Department of Human, Homeless and Family Services led by Benita R.

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 ...