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What to know as Michigan budget talks advance Updated May 06, 2021; Facebook Share Quarterly budgets for many state agencies, staffing cuts and additional limits on how state agencies can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic all remain on the table as Michigan lawmakers move forward with setting the state’s annual budget. Both the state House and Senate appropriations committees reported initial proposals for the state budget to the floor this week, the latest step in ensuring state government a...

“This is about doing what’s right for our kids. I have serious concerns about the consequences of this impractical, ineffective order,” Albert said. “Michigan isn’t solving any problems with this particular mask order – it’s actually creating problems for young kids and their families.” The order requires child care providers to “make a good faith effort .. to ensure that children aged 2  to 4 years wear a mask when participating in gatherings.” The order mandates all child...

Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Unemployed people who find a job would get $1,000 as part of $12.7 billion in proposed COVID-19 relief spending that began advancing in the state Legislature on Wednesday. The “return to work” grants would cover up to 400,000 residents, nearly half of the 839,000 receiving jobless benefits. The Michigan Chamber of Commerce said the incentive would help businesses find desperately needed workers who, due to supplemental federal aid, can get $662 a wee...

The one-time payment, as opposed to bonding, is expected to save the state about $400 million in interest.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer outlined a plan that ties specific vaccination levels to rolling back COVID-19 restrictions during a press event Thursday morning.  The announcement mirrors the states goal of vaccinating 70% of all Michiganders 16 and older, but comes as Michigan continues to grapple with the nations worst pandemic outbreak.  “On our path to vaccinating 70% of Michiganders 16 and up, we can take steps to gradually get back to normal while keeping people safe," Whitmer said in a s...

Michigans "return to work" grants would pay unemployed people $1,000 to find a job By David Eggert LANSING, Mich. - Unemployed people who find a job would get $1,000 as part of $12.7 billion in proposed COVID-19 relief spending that began advancing in the state Legislature on Wednesday. People seeking employment line up outside an employment guide job fair on September 17, 2009 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Employers from various fields are attending the event in th...

The announcement comes as Michigan remains the state with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the nation, despite case rates and other trends improving.

9 & 10 News April 21, 2021 The real work is beginning in Lansing on the next year’s fiscal budget and as tensions have risen between the governor and the legislature during the pandemic, they now have to come together to get the budget done. The self-imposed deadline by Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the legislature to have the budget done by the end of June is quickly approaching. This year, the Michigan House Republicans have come up with a new plan. Many departments would only be getting al...

LANSING, Mich. — Republicans who control the Michigan House unveiled a plan Tuesday to spend federal COVID-19 aid, including a proposed $1.6 billion for road,

House GOP ties half of $13 billion pandemic relief plan to limiting Whitmer spending power Updated Apr 20, 2021; Posted Apr 20, 2021 The Michigan State Capitol building pictured in Lansing on Thursday, April 25, 2019. Neil Blake | MLive.comNeil Blake | MLive.com Facebook Share This story was updated with comment from the Michigan State Budget Office. LANSING, MI - Michigan has only used about half of its previously allocated $5.6 billion in federal COVID-19 relief. House Republicans want to c...