Michigan 'COVID cohort' enters adulthood with emotional scars, 'unprecedented' help November 15, 2024 | Julie J. Riddle, Encore Magazine in Talent & Education
Putting a price on fixing Flint, and cities like it January 24, 2016 | Chad Halcom, Lindsay VanHulle in Business Bridge More than $100 million in state and federal money already headed toward Flint will help with immediate needs. But replacing aging, lead-based water pipes in Flint and other older cities will take time, and a whole lot more money.
1-in-10 Michigan workers now collecting disability August 6, 2015 | Chad Halcom in Business Bridge Disability rolls surge past 500,000 workers, who are unlikely to return to the workforce. Critics claim Michigan’s system is too soft.
Expanding benefit rolls drains federal trust fund reserves August 6, 2015 | Chad Halcom in Business Bridge At current rates, money marked for workers with long-term disabilities will be exhausted by the 2016.