Progress Michigan blog posts.
Today Progress Michigan released a list of items that Michigan taxpayers won’t be able to buy with the 0.1 percent “income tax cut” that Lansing Republicans are proposing as they look ahead to November. For taxpayers earning $50,000 a year, the gimmickk would save about $23 in 2012. Click over to Pinterest and check out…
What if you showed up to work every day and did your job, then attended political party meetings where you bragged about intentionally sabotaging your job performance in order to advance a political goal? That might sound outrageous, but that is exactly the strategy being employed by Michigan’s Republican Secretary of State Ruth Johnson as…
The 2012 Center for Michigan state scorecard is out, and it contains some bad news for Gov. Snyder – namely that tax giveaways for rich CEOs and a little good luck aren’t good enough to, in the parlance used by the Rick for Michigan campaign, “provide tangible results for the programs citizens want and need.”…
Every Michigander should be proud of GM’s dramatic turnaround. But that doesn’t mean GM workers, drivers and shareholders should be underwriting GM’s membership to a controversial lobbying group like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). It’s time for GM to do the right thing. Big corporations like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Kraft are fleeing ALEC in…
National Women’s Health Week is an opportunity to encourage women to make their health a top priority and empower women by giving them the tools they need to take control over their own healthcare and family planning decisions. We all have a role to play in women’s health. Together, we can help the women we…
Each year in the United States, children as young as thirteen are sentenced to die in prison. No other country in the world locks up its young people for the rest of their natural lives for crimes committed before they can legally drive, join the military, vote, sign a contract, or quit school. In Michigan, children as…
Let’s face it – Michigan has been through the ringer. Since the collapse of the automotive industry, Michiganders have been working hard to redefine ourselves, and looking for new ways to grow and thrive. The beacon of hope and one constant that has threaded itself throughout Michigan’s history – what makes us different than just…
While the 2012 Michigan Summit is already underway, you don’t have to miss out! We’ll be live streaming our keynote panel right here at 12:15 pm. Feel free to get involved and Tweet with the hashtag #MS12! Live video from your Android device on Ustream
Privatizing prisons is a bad move for Michigan – but especially when those introducing the legislation are the ones profiting. Prisons that are privatized lack oversight and threaten public security, especially when a for-profit company is at the helm. Take the example of the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional facility in rural Mississippi. A report by…
Mitt Romney is bringing his Etch-A-Sketch campaign back to Michigan. We all remember how Romney said he would “let Detroit go bankrupt.” Now Romney’s Etch-A-Sketch campaign team is trying to pull a fast one – claiming that the plan to rescue the auto industry was actually Mitt’s idea. The trees are the right height in Michigan,…