State of Opportunity
This reporting project wrapped up in 2018.
State of Opportunity was a multi-year reporting and community engagement project focused on how poverty affects children in Michigan. It will shed light on the challenges of growing up or raising kids while struggling to pay the bills and highlight the successes and the resilience of these families and the people who serve them.
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At the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, 11-year-old Brianna Allgood is being tested by a machine called a spirometer. It measures her breathing.Brianna has… -
Update: If you missed the program, you can catch the audio on this post.Do at-risk kids have more on the line when it comes to testing? Are low… -
Our State of Opportunity team has been diving into the issue school funding over the past couple months.The vast majority of Michigan K-12 schools get… -
Over at our State of Opportunity website, we've been on Gap Watch: achievement gaps, literacy gaps, technology gaps, gender gaps, etc.Our latest… -
College is expensive. For some families, it’s prohibitively expensive. Several school districts are trying to follow the Kalamazoo Promise model by… -
More than 90% of school children in Lake County qualify for free or reduced price lunch. To make sure they continue to eat healthy meals once school is… -
Lake County, in central northern Michigan, is the poorest part of the state, with nearly half of its children living in poverty. That’s according to the… -
More than 400,000 children are currently in foster care in the U.S. Once a child has entered the system, they remain there on average for nearly two… -
The latest Kids Count data show that roughly 11,000 teens gave birth in Michigan in 2010. Statistically speaking, teen parents are more likely to drop out… -
Our State of Opportunity project focuses on kids and what it will take to get them ahead. At the most basic level, that means ensuring children are…
