Yemenis cut back their Ramadan meals as soaring prices bite

April 8th, 20220 ADEN/SANAA – Aqeel bin Thabet, a university professor in the Yemeni city of Aden, used to buy one or two sheep to eat during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, but because of soaring prices this year can only afford meat from a butcher once a week. Others in the city like 50-year-old Intisar Ahmad said she will have to forgo meat...

We can do more to fight poverty

March 2nd, 20220 American policymakers have a very full plate. They’ve got to grapple with health care, education, the environment, economic growth and more. The list goes on and on. Along with these priorities, I have argued for some time that the policy community needs to do more to address poverty. How much time and resources should we devote to...

Michigan’s ambitious plan to end homelessness in the state

January 17th, 20210 DETROIT — The state of Michigan has released its 2020-2022 State Action Plan to end and prevent homelessness.  More than 65,000 people in Michigan experienced homeless in 2018, according to the Michigan State Housing Development Authority annual report. The data reflects the projected number of literally homeless people, including...

Poor children benefit when parents have access to healthcare

November 18th, 20170 Low-income children in the U.S. whose parents qualified for Medicaid were more likely to receive preventive care, regardless of their own insurance coverage, a new study finds. Researchers called the finding “an important spillover effect.” Children whose mothers and fathers were enrolled in Medicaid, government insurance for...

What could Amazon do for Detroit? Just imagine…

November 17th, 20173 Members of Detroit's Amazon HQ committee tasked with landing the business behemoth make the case for why this matters By Keith A. Owens Amazon announced on October 5 that it is planning to open a second headquarters, to be called Amazon HQ2. Facing steep competition - and some might say steeper odds – a broad list of 59 local and...

Spread of fighting, cholera pushes Yemen to collapse

May 19th, 20170 SANAA, Yemen — Spilling into the hallways of crowded Yemeni hospitals, children writhe in pain from cholera. Displaced villagers roam baking hot plains and barren mountains to evade warring militias. The escalating outbreak of disease and displacement of tens of thousands by recent fighting has inflamed one of the world's worst...