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.
A private jobs report from ADP last week estimated job growth in June far higher than the official numbers that were released on Friday by the Department of Labor.
The ADP Small Business Report, put out by Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC, had estimated on Thursday that the economy had added 157,000 jobs from May to June, but the Dept. of Labor’s Employment Situation Summary on Friday found only 18,000 additional jobs in June. The unemployment rate jumped again, to 9.2 percent.
The number of new jobs added each month is critical for lowering the unemployment rate. The economics blog Calculated Risk notes that in order to lower the unemployment to 8.2 percent — still very high, of course — we would have to add between 224,000 and 391,000 jobs every month for the next year, depending on population growth and whether the labor force participation rate remains steady.
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