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.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the monthly jobs report for January this morning and, once again, what appears to be very good news on the surface is really bad news when you look at the details.
The good news on the surface is that the national unemployment rate dropped a whopping .4 percent, down to 9 percent overall. The bad news in the details is that it did so while the economy only created a net 36,000 new jobs, which means nearly the entire decline is due not to people finding jobs but to people exhausting their unemployment benefits and joining the shadow world of the 99ers — uncounted.
In fact, the labor force participation rate dropped to 64.2 percent, the lowest level since the early 1980s. Once someone has exhausted their benefits, they are no longer counted as unemployed and no longer counted as a part of the labor force. So this drop in unemployment that looks like rosy news is actually very bad news for the economy.
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