Could no-strings-attached ‘cash prescriptions’ slash poverty among Michigan’s youngest?

Rx Kids, a program which grew out of Flint and now operates in Kalamazoo and parts of the eastern U.P., gives families $1,500 mid-pregnancy and $500 a month up to a year of the infant’s life.The program, led by Flint pediatrician Dr. Mona Hanna, is expanding quickly in Michigan.In the Upper Peninsula, Jackie Tasker-Wilson has to drive downstate several times a month to see her doctors for her high-risk pregnancy — trips that set her and her partner back a couple hundred dollars each appointment. That’s money she can’t spend on rent, food or necessities for the baby. 
Kayla Wychopen, also in the U.P., recently gave birth and is living in transitional housing with her boyfriend. She said she constantly worries about finding a permanent place to live and affording food and all of the things her baby will need.