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.
An annual Labor Day report from the Michigan League for Human Services confirms that Michigan’s long-term unemployment rate has gone through the roof over the last few years. In addition to the regular unemployment rate, which has led the nation for most of the last 4 years, the long-term rate is an even bigger problem:
Less discussed in the media, but of equal or greater consequence, is Michigan’s high long-term unemployment
rate. Long-term unemployment is defined as over 26 consecutive weeks, or over half a year. The share of Michigan’s workers who were long-term unemployed was 6.5 percent in 2000, when the economy was good, but 41 percent in 2009. Given that there were on average 665,020 unemployed workers each month in 2009, that amounts to approximately
272,658 workers each month who were long-term unemployed. Michigan has led the country in long-term unemployment for the past three years.
One of the problems with the long-term unemployed is that they eventually give up on finding work, taking them out of the workforce and hiding their numbers.
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