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The State of Michigan is helping erase medical debt for over 200,000 residents. That’s after the state partnered with the group Undue Medical Debt to purchase and forgive over $144 million in medical debt.
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The state’s unemployment rate dipped in June for the second month in a row to 5.3%, according to the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget’s monthly jobs report.Health services showed the biggest month-to-month job gains, along with construction and government services. The biggest month-to-month losses were in professional/business services and manufacturing.
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Twenty states, including Michigan, have joined in a lawsuit to block cuts by the Trump administration to a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program designed to help protect communities from natural disasters.
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A planned semiconductor project near Flint that officials estimate could have brought 10,000 jobs to the region will not be going forward.
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Michigan State University professor Pete Johnston competed on "Jeopardy!" He previously appeared on several episodes of WKAR's "Quizbusters" as a high school student.
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The police department says officers were responding to a trespassing and suspicious persons call in Bath Township, Michigan Saturday.
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A music festival planned initially for this weekend in Mid-Michigan is postponing its introductory event to next year.
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Michigan’s attorney general is co-leading a letter to Congress asking it to pass a law to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from hiding their identity while in the field.ICE officers have received scrutiny in recent months for wearing plainclothes and masks and allegedly not identifying themselves as law enforcement during raids.
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The Michigan Economic Development Corporation is asking a judge to shield documents seized in a raid on its offices from an investigation by the state attorney general.
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The rule would prohibit extended stays at MDOT rest areas and carpool lots—spaces where some unhoused Michigan residents have sought refuge.
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The proposed ordinance would require landlords to have insurance to cover relocation costs for tenants of red tagged properties.
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The firearm store that sold the gun used in the Oxford High School shooting is asking the Michigan Court of Appeals to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the family of a survivor.