The all-day event focused on the many broader issues that play into the talent pipeline problem, ranging from educational inequities to biased and antiquated hiring strategies.
While other hard-hit township neighborhoods have recovered from the Great Recession, challenges have persisted in Sugarbrook. But community members are mobilizing around a variety of solutions.
The Michigan Prison Doula Initiative aims to support incarcerated pregnant women so they don't have to experience the isolation and degradation that often come with giving birth behind bars.
WeListen was created after the 2016 presidential election to bridge the political gap on campus and offer students a better way to discuss divisive issues.
Michigan has some of the worst roads in the nation. For now, initiative on fixing them will have to come from cities and counties stepping up with solutions on a minimal budget. Here's what some are doing.
Staff at the early education research organization say many locals aren't aware of what they do, or that HighScope even exists. As the organization's 50th anniversary approaches, they're hoping to change that.
Expunging a criminal record can be a difficult and costly process, but an upcoming Clean Slate Ypsi meeting aims to develop a plan to lobby the legislature to change that.
The new Ypsilanti District Library program encourages local residents to read, and attend events related to, a different featured book three times a year.
A Google Doc offering resources for low-income U-M students spread like wildfire last year and is continuing to effect change on both the U-M campus and others nationwide.
A move to the Chapelle Business Center and a partnership with Bottles-N-Backpacks' child development program has allowed the successful nonprofit to expand significantly.
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