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An annual report that looks at the well-being of children in Michigan shows more kids are growing up in poverty.One in four kids lives in a household at…
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Well, it’s Labor Day weekend, unofficially known as the last weekend of summer, and this in itself seems horribly unfair.Weren’t we still shoveling snow a…
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A new report shows it’s getting harder for people in Michigan at the lower end of the pay scale.Yannet Lathrop is a policy analyst for the Michigan League…
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A new report finds Michigan’s poorest children have failed to make up any ground in their reading skills in the past decade.According to the latest Kids…
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Hundreds of thousands of Michiganders who rely on government programs to put food on their table will be getting less money to buy groceries starting…
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There’s a bumper sticker I occasionally see that says: Unions: The People Who Brought You the Weekend. For most Americans, that is certainly true. Unions…
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Childhood poverty rate high in MichiganThis year’s Kids Count report from the Michigan League for Public Policy and the Annie E. Casey Foundation says…
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Policymakers debate how to spend surplus The debate continues in Lansing over how the state should spend almost half a billion dollars in unexpected…