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Criticism Grows As Check Cashers Expand Services in Poorer Areas

Anonymous on August 7, 2012 - 2:59pm

Behind bulletproof glass, a smiling teller at a Rite Check store in the South Bronx waited patiently for customers to hand over their checks. For every $100 cashed, she collected a $1.91 service fee.

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NPR: How America's Losing The War On Poverty

Anonymous on August 4, 2012 - 6:08pm

While President Obama and Gov. Romney battle for the hearts and minds of the middle class this election season, there's a huge swath of Americans that are largely ignored. It's the poor, and their ranks are growing.According to a recent survey by The Associated Press, the number of Americans living at or below the poverty line will reach its highest point since President Johnson made his famous declaration of war on poverty in 1964.Close to 16 percent of Americans now live at or below the poverty line. For a family of four, that's 23,000 a year.

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Homeless Camps in West Michigan

Anonymous on August 2, 2012 - 4:56pm

It's not the nicest home at "North Camp" -- a settlement of homeless shanties that has grown in recent years. That honor goes to Cookie's place, just down the way. But Gary Owczarzak and Cookie still live on the same side of the tracks. "He's got a mailbox down there," said Gary Owczarzak, a resident of this homeless camp in the city of Walker. He's pointing down the railroad tracks, toward the home of a homeless man known as Cookie. 

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Demand climbing for women in science, engineering, math fields

Anonymous on July 28, 2012 - 1:05pm

Like something out of a movie or crime drama, Kailey Doherty studied the DNA strand, looking for a possible match.The 17 year old was trying to catch a killer.OK, not a real killer. But the lab simulation did use real DNA, and the teenage girls gathered at Kettering University were using the same techniques put to work to solve high-profile cases across the country.

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Program aims to bring local produce into low-income homes

Anonymous on July 22, 2012 - 4:07pm

Randi Dale and her 15-year-old daughter walked away from the farmers market in Battle Creek on Wednesday with bags full of locally-grown corn, cantaloupe, peaches and cucumbers.But instead of cash, the Battle Creek resident made her purchase with a different type of currency — tokens, provided by the Double Up Food Bucks (DUFB) program.“It helps me in so many ways,” Dale said. “It allows my kids and my family to eat healthy.”

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Kalamazoo-area's high-poverty schools get high grades in Mackinac Center study

Anonymous on July 20, 2012 - 9:08am

There's not many studies on school quality that give Loy Norrix High School an "A" and Schoolcraft High School a "D."But that's the results of a statewide analysis by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Midland-based (conservative) think-tank.

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