Sheffield, 38, is the city's first new mayor in 12 years, succeeding Mike Duggan, who left the office to run for state ...

Mayor Mary Sheffield is reshuffling city departments and has created new positions to tackle poverty and homelessness in the ...

Sheffield's administration is establishing new departments aimed at reducing poverty and has joined Rx Kids, a program that ...

Detroit's new anti-poverty chief, Luke Shaefer, plans to build on the city's momentum by making targeted changes to systems ...

Sheffield became Detroit's 76th mayor and first woman to be elected mayor after taking the oath of office in the morning on ...

Rx Kids, a program that offers pregnant moms cash assistance, is growing quickly in Michigan. It will come to Detroit next.

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield never thought growing up she would be first woman to lead the city. Sheffield aims to boost several housing initiatives in her administration and address other quality of ...

Sometimes the worst thing about elections is that defeated candidates fade into the political shadows, taking with them the good ideas they offered and the issues they championed on the campaign trail ...

DETROIT – One in two children in Detroit lives in poverty, and roughly one-third of adults across the city live below the poverty line. Those numbers, Detroit’s new mayor says, are helping drive a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On her first day as Detroit's mayor, Mary Sheffield — the first woman elected to lead the city in its more than 300-year history — ...