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Stateside: Medicaid work requirements study; Big 3 paradigm shift; running the Detroit “numbers”
Today on Stateside , new work requirements for Michigan Medicaid recipients are set to go into effect in 2020. A new study out of Arkansas gives an idea of the potential consequences for healthcare coverage in the state. Plus, the challenges that first-generation and minority students face in college, and a Grand Rapids program that wants to help them get “to and through” college.