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Report shows Michigan falls behind in supporting children
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LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – A new report showed that children in Michigan don’t receive the same level of support as children in other states. Researchers found, in Michigan support for everything from education to health is lacking.
Michigan falls in the bottom half of states in family and community factors, economic security, education and health.
“If they are not accessing a good education, health care things like that they’re gonna perform not so well in other areas of their life,” said Wilson.
Ashia Wilson is a program coordinator for an advocacy program in Lansing and has seen a lot of families struggle to provide for their kids.
Kids Count policy director Anne Kuhnen said in order to change Michigan’s ranking, the state needs to invest more into children and their families. Kuhnen said in areas we do invest a lot in, such as children’s access to health insurance, Michigan is doing well.
While Michigan as a whole ranks low on the scale for a child’s well-being, Northwest Initiative in Lansing is doing its best to help change those statistics.
“Our main mission is to primarily work with our low-income families to provide resources to them, emergency services, and teach them about nutrition education,” Peggy Vaughn-Payne.
Helping Children in Lansing succeed.
The Michigan League for Public Policy will be releasing a Kids Count Data Book in August focusing on child well-being in Michigan, highlighting specific counties.
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Over 95,000 Southwest Michigan residents were without power on Saturday evening, nearly two days after severe storms rolled through the area, according to online outage maps.
As of 6 p.m., Consumers Energy’s outage map is reporting 96,040 people are without service. The utility company says it has more than 660 crews “working around the clock” to restore power. The majority of reported outages are near Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and Bellevue.
According to the company, service is estimated to be restored to most customers between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Indiana Michigan Power’s outage map is reporting over 3,000 Southwest Michigan residents are without service as of 6 p.m.
A large part of Michigan was in the path of a widespread severe weather system late Thursday.
The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed that three tornadoes touched down in Southwest Michigan during the storms, according to CBS affiliate WWMT. An EF-1 tornado touched down near Charlotte and traveled towards Lansing, an EF-0 tornado touched down between Kalamazoo and Calhoun counties and another EF-0 touched down near Battle Creek.
The NWS also confirmed three tornadoes touched down in Southeast Michigan during the storms. An EF-1 tornado was detected in Livingston County, an EF-0 tornado touched down in Genesee County and another EF-0 tornado was confirmed in Saginaw County.
Tree specialists were knocking on doors in Holly on Friday, offering residents help with cleanup.
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LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – A line of severe storms late Thursday night and into early Friday morning left behind significant damage in Mid-Michigan. Numerous trees and power lines are down across the area causing road closures and power outages.
As of early Friday morning, more than 200,000 Consumers Energy customers were without power along with over 20,000 Lansing Board of Water and Light customers. DTE Energy did not report nearly as many outages on the east side of the state.
The power lines and trees knocked down across the area have left many roads closed Friday morning including the following:
- I-496 in Lansing from Pine St to MLK Blvd. Both east and westbound traffic is shut down due to downed power lines in the area.
- WB M-43 (Grand River Ave) is shut down at Fairview Ave due to downed power lines.
- Canal Rd is shut down in both directions between Rickie St and Davis Hwy in Eaton County due to numerous downed power lines.
- There are many other closures in Mid-Michigan, you can receive the latest updates on traffic on the major roads anytime with our First Alert Traffic Map.
One of the harder hit areas appears to be Eaton County. Crews from the National Weather Service will be surveying the damage in Mid-Michigan on Friday to determine if a tornado touched down at any point.
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