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Caregivers on the Front Lines

A Program in Detroit Provides Urgently Needed Care for Caregivers

Apr 22, 2021 | 0

As more and more Americans take on the responsibility of caring for an aging family member, not...

Fixing In-home Healthcare

Mar 23, 2021 | 0

One Detroit’s Bill Kubota looks into the critical shortage of home healthcare workers.

These stories are produced through the New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative, a partnership of news organizations and universities, including Detroit Public TV’s One Detroit, dedicated to reporting about successful responses to social problems. The collaborative’s first series, Invisible Army: Caregivers on the Front Lines, focuses on potential solutions to challenges facing individuals who take care of adults.

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News From Around Detroit

Why a successful lawyer became an advocate for Detroit neighborhood development
by Louis Aguilar (Louis Aguilar | Bridge Detroit)
The city is majority Black. Real estate development is not. Chase Cantrell has a plan to change that.
Effort underway to help mothers who can’t afford bail
by Olivia Lewis (Olivia Lewis | Bridge Detroit)
Detroiters are supporting #FreeBlackWomxn this Mother’s Day by contributing to the Bail Out Fund. Michigan Liberation and The Advancement Project are shifting views on incarceration by sharing photos and narratives in a new social media campaign while raising funds to send mamas home.
Detroit to get $440M in federal aid. Now to figure out how to spend it.
by Louis Aguilar (Louis Aguilar | Bridge Detroit)
Detroit will soon receive a huge federal check, thanks to the American Rescue Plan. How and what it can be spent on, however, remains unclear.
Freedom ain’t free: A look at Detroit’s proposed City Charter changes
by Orlando Bailey (Orlando Bailey | Bridge Detroit)
Authentically Detroit talks with Charter Commissioner Denzel McCampbell and television host Steve Hood about the Charter Commission’s proposed changes that will be before voters in August.
Youth-led work revives Detroit’s Denby neighborhood
by Bryce Huffman (Bryce Huffman | Bridge Detroit)
A Denby High School senior project turned into an eight-year commitment, in which students and residents took on blight, neighborhood parks and a commercial corridor.

National Headlines

California expands drought emergency to large swath of state
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has expanded a drought emergency declaration to a large swath of the nation's most populated state amid "acute water supply shortages" in northern and central areas.
NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble
A NASA spacecraft is headed back to Earth with rubble it collected from an asteroid nearly 200 million miles away. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex fired its engines Monday to start the two-year trip home.
FDA greenlights Pfizer vaccine for children ages 12 to 15
New York became the latest state to require students at publicly funded colleges be vaccinated for the fall term -- a move that comes as overall, new infections in the U.S. have fallen to their lowest since last September. Vaccine manufacturer Pfizer announced Monday that it had received FDA approval to vaccinate children 12 to 15 years old. William Brangham has the latest COVID news.