Leader of Rx Kids released two research papers this month looking at economic and birth outcomes in Flint after the program was implemented last year.

The cash aid program is now running in 11 communities across Michigan.

In Flint, where a cash aid program for moms and babies first began, a new body of research points to some promising outcomes — a drastic drop in evictions and fewer preterm births and neonatal intensive care unit admissions.

Leaders of Rx Kids, which offers $1,500 mid-pregnancy and then $500 a month up to a year of the baby's life in communities across Michigan, released two research papers this month evaluating how the program affects economic stability, maternal mental health and birth outcomes in Flint, where roughly a third of the population lives below poverty .

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