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 conventional wisdom in Washington seems to be that another year-long extension of federal unemployment benefits is likely to be approved in Congress despite strong Republican opposition in the House.
Democratic legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to introduce a bill today to extend federal unemployment benefits for another year.
David Espo of the Association Press says that the part of President Obama’s jobs bill that includes another extension of federal unemployment benefits is likely to pass the U.S. House while other parts will be shot down.
Unless Congress extends federal unemployment benefits again — something that seems unlikely given Republican control of the House — more than two million people will lose those benefits in the next few months.
A new study from the Brookings Institution concludes that extending unemployment benefits during times of high and long-lasting unemployment does little to prevent the unemployed from taking jobs and may actually boost the number of people employed.
President Obama is set to deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress Thursday night in which he will present a proposal to boost the economy and create jobs. This proposal will apparently include a call for another extension of federal unemployment benefits.
As President Obama prepares to announce a plan next week to create more jobs, another fight over extending federal unemployment benefits is likely in the offing between the White House and the Republican-led House of Representatives.
The deal struck by President Obama and the Republican leaders of the U.S. House and Senate protects against cuts for those currently receiving unemployment benefits but it all but ensures that there will not be another extension of those benefits at the end of the year.
During a joint press conference with German Chancellor Andrea Merkel on Tuesday, President Obama suggested that he would like to explore with Congressional leaders the possibility of extending unemployment benefits again.
Andrew Ackerman at the Wall Street Journal parses the jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and finds that a full one million Americans exhausted their jobless benefits in the past year.
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