Mich. should extend unemployment benefits
Before the end of the year, almost 90,000 unemployed workers in Michigan will have dried out their unemployment benefits. The state, which boasts the nation’s highest unemployment rate at 14.1 percent, is struggling to find short-term answers to the state’s larger problems. There’s currently a bill sitting in the Michigan Senate that could do just that.
People need to question more
You have one hour to decide between your life and your leg.” No, this is not the plot of the next inevitable “Saw” film. It is a very real situation my father faced almost a year ago.
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Editorial board out of touch with average Michiganian
Updated 06/24/2009 7:30pmI cannot believe the State News editorial board took a stance saying that the elimination of the Michigan Promise Scholarship is “necessary” (SN 6/24).
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When humans got together and created civilization, in theory they enacted laws in order to protect and better society.
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