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Proposals to require public employees in Michigan to pay at least 20 percent of their health insurance costs have advanced in the state Legislature, the…
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Two days ago a friend of mine called me in a semi-panic. Her unemployment benefits were about to run out, and she had eighty-seven dollars to her name.…
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On Monday, Governor Snyder signed into law a bill that would extend unemployment benefits by 20 weeks to some 35,000 Michiganders. However, the bill also…
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Update 11:43 a.m.:The state Civil Service Commission has approved agreements to allow state employees to put their live-in partners on their insurance…
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend Bush-era tax breaks and extend jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed yesterday. The tax-deal was…
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Governor Granholm says she supports President Obama’s compromise with Congressional Republicans on tax cuts.Granholm said that the President got a ‘good…
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The Associated Press reports that the state "will stop taking new extended unemployment benefit applications after Saturday because Congress has failed to…