MI Department Of Human Services

The chickens hatched during the budget negotiations over the last two months are quickly coming home to roost. The Department of Human Services is cutting 320 jobs just when the number of Michigan residents in need of the agency’s services is exploding due to rising unemployment and poverty. MLive.com reports:

LANSING – Ismael Ahmed, Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s nominee to be the new head of the massive and troubled Department of Human Services (DHS), faced some tough questions at his confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate’s Families and Human Services Committee, but some 30 supporters from state Senators and Representative to colleagues and friends spoke in [...]