They include a department devoted to addressing violence without police involvement…
The mayor also announced that starting Wednesday, all students at Detroit's public and charter K-12 schools can ride city buses for free with a student ID. And she issued a challenge to Detroit's corporate leaders and employers: "If Detroit can pay its workers a living wage, you can too." (Sheffield recently signed an executive order meant to jumpstart the process of ensuring every city worker meets a minimum income threshold).
And she says that Detroit is now the largest city in the country participating in the Rx Kids program. So far, the program has approved over 1,200 applications, and distributed $1.6 million in cash assistance to Detroit mothers and infants, or people who are expecting a new baby.
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