Rx Kids provides a cash stipend to expectant mothers and then a monthly stipend during a child’s first year of life…
"These findings suggest that this pro-family, prevention-driven program may be helping more babies survive their earliest days,” said Dr. Mona Hanna, director of Rx Kids and associate dean of public health at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in a written statement…
A program that gives direct cash payments to pregnant and new mothers launched Monday across the entire Upper Peninsula.
Rx Kids will provide U.P. mothers $1,500 while they're pregnant, and another $500 per month for the first six months of their baby's life. This is an expansion to the program, which was already available in the peninsula's eastern counties and several other communities in the state...
https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2026-03-02/rx-kids-launches-in-entire-upper-peninsula
"It's not a pill, it's prevention. We give families a little bit of breathing room during pregnancy and infancy when money is the tightest because stress, housing instability, and hunger makes kids and communities sick," Hanna said during an event in Detroit to mark the launch...
https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2026-02-09/rx-kids-launches-in-detroit
