I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
American women are one step closer to a raise. And that’s welcome news especially for women in Michigan.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation that would strengthen the 1963 Equal Pay Act by, among other things, allowing women to sue for compensatory and punitive damages if they feel they’ve been discriminated against and requiring that employers seeking to justify unequal pay bear the burden of proving that any gender disparities are job-related necessary.
The Paycheck Fairness Act, which still has to pass the Senate, also prohibits employers from retaliating against employees who share salary information with their co-workers – one key way women often discover they’re getting the shaft. And it creates a new grant program to help strengthen the girls’ and women’s negotiation skills, so we get better at pushing for the pay we deserve.
And we need those skills in Michigan: Michigan women earn only 69.8 cents for every dollar earned by a man, even worse than the national average of 77 cents earned for every man’s dollar. That ranks us as 47th in the nation in regard to pay equity, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Over a woman’s lifetime the current pay disparity could cost her from $400,000 to $2 million in earnings relative to a man performing equivalent work.
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