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

The world’s nations are gathering in Spain for a high-level conference to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor ...

According to records from 1999, Detroit’s highest credit rating was A3, which is one notch above where the city sits now, a ...

Analyzing population trends in the metro Detroit area using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, I wanted to understand how ...

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 ...

Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Los Angeles all rank among the nation’s 10 “neediest” cities, according to an analysis by the personal finance website WalletHub. The report ranked 182 ...

The majority of Detroit residents' homes were built before 1950, and some low-income households are in some of the city's oldest homes, according to the Poverty Solutions policy brief.

John Yang: Detroit, already facing steep economic and racial inequalities, has emerged as a coronavirus hot spot. Janine Cain is a mother of five on the city’s East Side. Janine Cain: ...

Low-income Americans are bearing the brunt of COVID-19. Detroit, a city already facing steep economic and racial inequalities, has emerged as a virus hot spot. John Yang reports and talks to the ...

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's recent resurgence has led to refurbished downtown buildings, new boutique hotels and an invigorated arts community. But the renaissance has done little for some residents who live in ...