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As state after state raises the minimum wage, companies continue to find ways to cheat hourly workers out of pay they’re entitled to — by holding unpaid mandatory off-the-clock meetings, and even [...]

LANSING — A U.S. district judge’s ruling that work requirements for Medicaid recipients should not have been approved in Kentucky and Arkansas could lead to a similar ruling in Michigan, say [...]

This column originally appeared in The Alpena News on March 29, 2019. While our economy has started to rebound in many areas, Michigan still faces a big problem—we don’t currently have the [...]

This column originally appeared in Michigan Advance on March 16, 2019. I was going to write this for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Then I was going to write this for Black History Month. But twin [...]

The administration said pass-through business owners could reduce their state tax liability through a state tax credit claimed on their personal income tax returns that is worth 4.25 percent [...]

Chances are, if you live in Michigan you’ve got one (or more). My most recent pothole story took place last week. My youngest son, Cameron, was driving home from the University of Illinois at [...]

Michigan depends on its skilled workers, and much has been written and said about the need to build up our state’s workforce. Yet year after year in the state budget, state policymakers neglect [...]

The solutions, however, are often politically difficult and expensive. The Michigan Association of United Ways recommends raising the child-care subsidy cap as one way to offer relief. In 2016, [...]

Whitmer’s budget proposes tripling the number of literacy coaches and, most importantly, provides the funding to do it. This is a huge step in the right direction, especially as part of a broader [...]

Birthing parents and babies do not have the best odds on their side in Detroit. The 2018 Kids Count in Michigan Data Book puts the city’s infant mortality rate at 13.5 per thousand, almost [...]