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Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed a COVID-19 relief bill. But there's a bitter partisan split over what one of the governor’s line-item vetoes means…
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Steve Gray, the director of Michigan's beleaguered Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA), has resigned. Gray used to run a clinic at the University of…
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The state of Michigan says it has met an internal goal to clear out a serious backlog of claims that were filed between March 15 and May 1.The state's…
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Michiganders waiting months on state unemployment claims should soon have an answer.The Unemployment Insurance Agency is pledging to process the remaining…
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Michigan’s official jobless rate jumped to 22.7%.The seasonally adjusted number shows Michigan lost more than one million jobs from March to April. The…
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Legislators grilled the head of the Unemployment Insurance Agency about why some people still are not receiving benefits. Steve Gray, director of the…
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The Michigan unemployment insurance application process is back online. After crashing Monday because of the huge volume of applicants, the state added…
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More than a million Michiganders, or more than a quarter of the state’s workforce, have applied for unemployment during the coronavirus outbreak.Jeff…
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Applications for unemployment in Michigan took another huge jump last week. 384,844 people filed first-time claims. The U.S. Department of Labor’s newly…
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Update: 5:46 p.m. Jeff Donofrio, Michigan's Director of Labor and Economic Opportunity, says 55,000 people filed claims in the past three days - a 1,500%…