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.
An employee of the Ohio agency that oversees unemployment insurance benefits sent out an email this week on his official state email address slamming the 99ers as lazy and not interested in working.
A group of 67 economists are reporting that the nation’s economy added jobs in November as companies began hiring again, though it may not be enough to push down the unemployment rate. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The Center for Public Integrity has used the Freedom of Information Act to get their hands on hundreds of letters written by mostly Republican legislators who voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — i.e. the stimulus bill — and then applied for those funds after the bill was passed. That by itself would [...]
In light of last week’s dismal September jobs report, Heidi Shierholz, of the Economic Policy Institute, updates her estimates of how many jobs the United States needs to create to get back to where it was, employment-wise, when the recession started.
Two bad pieces of news in the otherwise tepid jobs report.
George Fulton, an economist from the University of Michigan, released projections this week that predicted that job losses would continue for the state of Michigan through the end of this year, then rebound somewhat in the next two years with slow but steady growth. The Detroit Free Press reports:
On Friday, the government will release the September jobs report, and some economists are bracing for the worst: a decrease in overall private employment and an increase in the unemployment rate, more evidence of a persistent stall-out in the recovery. Two reports released this morning give fuel to those worries. Payroll processing firm ADP said [...]
Northwestern economist Robert Gordon brings the gloom by predicting that the United States will likely face sluggish economic growth not only for the next few years, but for the next few decades:
Today, following a meeting of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB), President Obama is to announce a new jobs program aimed at training workers into growing industries. Skills for America’s Future will help to match community college curricula with the needs of hiring local companies. The New York Times reports:
200,000 people gathered on Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial for a rally with the theme “Jobs, Justice and Education,” calling for more help for the unemployed and the impoverished and for more government action to promote job growth.
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