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 Department of Labor’s Employment Situation Report is out this morning and it shows the jobs outlook for October was virtually unchanged. The economy added 80,000 jobs, far below what is needed, but the unemployment rate did drop slightly to nine percent.
The Department of Labor’s latest report shows a slight decline in new unemployment claims this week, from 404,000 to 402,000. The four-week average stands at 405,500. This is still well above the post-recession lows in the early spring.
Rep. Ken Horn (R-Frankenmuth), the legislator who wrote the bill to diminish Michigan’s social safety net and remove residents from the assistance rolls, says the unemployed will just have to “man up and feed their family.”
Felix Salmon, the economics writer for Reuters, writes a column in the wake of last week’s jobs report in which he says that high unemployment is probably here to stay — and that government can’t do much to change that.
The Michigan unemployment report for August is out and the results, while predictable, are more bad news for a state economy that hasn’t seen consistent job growth in years.
A new report by the Michigan League for Human Services finds that long-term unemployment is at the highest rate since such measures began to be tracked in the state of Michigan.
More than a third of Michigan children live in households where no one has a stable, full-time job, according to the annual Kids Count survey by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
In preparation for the ongoing negotiations with state employee unions designed to force $145 million in concessions, Republican Gov. Rick Snyder ordered departments to prepare to fire some employees.
Benefits for some poor Michigan families could end as soon as October if the Senate approves the four year lifetime welfare limit that was passed by the House in May.
State Democrats introduced legislation Monday aimed at restoring six weeks worth of unemployment insurance cut by the GOP-dominated legislature earlier this year.
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