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Four tips for staying employed in the age of artificial intelligence
Spoiler alert: Use your head. It’s still better than a robot’s.
100 workers recalled. Then they all flunked their drug tests.
Michigan companies can’t fill jobs because too many people have opioids or pot in their systems. Is the answer more testing? Or none?
Cut taxes vs public investment: What Michigan’s fiscal tug of war means to you
Lawmakers want a tax cut. The governor wants billions more for schools, roads and water safety. Are we taxed too little or too much? We explain what it all means to you – in 11 bite-sized reports.
Higher taxes for schools? A big fight brews in Utah
A group of powerful Utah business leaders is pushing for more money for that state’s schools. Utah lawmakers are having none of it.
Snyder’s former budget chief points to Michigan’s way forward
A Q-and-A with John Nixon, Gov. Rick Snyder’s lauded budget guru before he left in 2014.
Take a trip through the Michigan Tax Time Machine (SLIDESHOW)
Michigan used to have plenty of jobs, high wages – and high taxes. Not so today. Travel briefly through time to see how what Michigan collects in taxes has shrunk over a generation – and why we now struggle to fund the basics.
After three years, Michigan’s working poor are still stuck
Despite rising wages and declining jobless rates, four in 10 Michigan households remain unable to afford basic living necessities.
Check out Michigan’s hottest residential markets
Homes in these cities now exceed 2008 property values, even as much of the rest of the state still recovers from the Great Recession