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My name is Alexa and I am one of the newest interns at the Michigan League for Public Policy. I look forward to this exciting opportunity to work with the amazing staff here and gain experience [...]

For Immediate Release November 29, 2017 Contact: Alex Rossman arossman@mlpp.org 517.487.5436 Policy blueprint for Michigan lawmakers would turn around abysmal national, regional rankings [...]

For Immediate Release October 24, 2017 Contact: Alex Rossman arossman@mlpp.org 517.487.5436 2017 Race for Results report shows Michigan has lowest child well-being score for African-American [...]

For Immediate Release October 20, 2017 Contact: Alex Rossman arossman@mlpp.org 517.487.5436 Michigan’s Senators stand up for the people, but preferential budget primarily passes along party lines [...]

Ever since my junior year of high school, I’ve worked at a child care center in the Grand Rapids area, my hometown. This means that for the past four summers, I’ve spent up to 40 hours a week [...]

“CREC yourself before you wreck yourself.” For the last 11 years, I have been trying to slip that joke into my work in the Legislature and now the League. And I had an epiphany yesterday that I [...]

 May 2017 Pat Sorenson, Senior Policy Analyst As Michigan legislators continue to debate state spending for the upcoming budget year, the Michigan League for Public Policy is advocating for [...]

My first introduction to the Michigan League for Public Policy came this past summer in the form of a State Budget 101 Training. It had been a long week, and I wasn’t sure if budget talk was [...]

The League’s staff blog is one of my favorite communications tools. It is always current, as we aim to post at least one new blog a week, sometimes more. It is personal, as many of us share about [...]

My father, a man of Norwegian descent who grew up on a small farm in southern Minnesota, was one of many beneficiaries of the GI bill. As part of the first generation in his family to attend [...]