How are Michigan families faring after losing welfare cash assistance?

Tracy Davenport lost her house and her car — and can’t find work because of a medical condition that causes her to fall down constantly. Learn her story at Michigan Radio, which has teamed up with Bridge Magazine to chronicle the first year after welfare reform in Michigan.

Bridge’s last report on welfare reform can be found here.

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Michigan Radio continues look at welfare reform's consequences

by Ron French, Bridge Michigan
April 5, 2012

<h1>Michigan Radio continues look at welfare reform's consequences</h1> <p class="byline">by Ron French, Bridge Michigan <br />April 5, 2012</p> <p>How are Michigan families faring after losing welfare cash assistance?</p> <p>Tracy Davenport lost her house and her car — and can’t find work because of a medical condition that causes her to fall down constantly. <a href="http://www.michiganradio.org/post/struggling-survive-after-state-cuts-assistance">Learn her story at Michigan Radio</a>, which has teamed up with Bridge Magazine to chronicle the first year after welfare reform in Michigan.</p> <p>Bridge’s last report on welfare reform can be <a href="http://bridgemi.com/2012/03/welfare-reforms-put-care-givers-in-a-wrenching-bind/#.T33L_-SLeVo">found here</a>.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://bridgemi.com/children-families/michigan-radio-continues-look-welfare-reforms-consequences/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://bridgemi.com&quot;&gt;Bridge Michigan&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/bridgemi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/cropped-android-chrome-192x192-1.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://bridgemi.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=12363&amp;amp;ga4=G-1E2G9MSHX5&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://bridgemi.com/children-families/michigan-radio-continues-look-welfare-reforms-consequences/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bridgemi.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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