Each shooting this week stemmed from some sort of dispute with feelings of disrespect and shame, Detroit Police Chief Todd ...

Heading into a new mayoral administration, Detroit is prepared to weather a future economic slowdown, a prominent national ...

The ghost of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is still haunting the race for Detroit's next mayor. Though he has been gone for ...

Detroit has the highest poverty rate among all cities in the U.S. with more than 300,000 residents Rev. Charles Williams II says city and business leaders are ignoring poverty and unemployment ...

A study recently released by the Brookings Institution says that metro Detroit has the highest rate of concentrated poverty among the top 25 metro areas in the U.S. by population.. In the six ...

By 1967, poverty was the focus of "wars" at both the federal and local levels. President Lyndon Johnson convinced Congress to pass extensive anti-poverty legislation in 1964 and 1965.

60%25 of Detroit%27s kids live below the poverty line. The U.S. child poverty rate has crept upward even with the economy recovering. If Congress doesn%27t prioritize children%27s needs%2C we have ...

DETROIT | When Charley Ballard tells the story of Detroit’s myriad woes, he starts with 8 Mile Road. The street, located eight miles from the city center, came to worldwide fame through a ...

How racism and poverty made Detroit a new coronavirus hot spot. The rising death toll, disproportionately among black residents, has led Michigan to create a racial disparities task force.

DETROIT (CBS DETROIT) - Poverty in Detroit has dropped for the third straight year according to new U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday. The U.S Census Bureau report on poverty level in Detroit: ...

Detroit Poverty Getting Worse According to the Census Bureau, Detroit is the most impoverished major city in the nation. And conditions are getting worse.

DETROIT (AP) — When the U.S. Census Bureau starts counting people next year in Detroit, obstacles are bound to arise: The city has tens of thousands of vacant houses, sparse internet access and ...