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Posted By Lee DeVito on Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 8:42 AM click to enlarge Former MDHHS director Robert Gordon, left, and Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Michigan's former director of Health and Humans Services told the Legislature Thursday that Governor Gretchen Whitmer asked for his resignation after they disagreed over reopening restaurants. Gordon was subpoenaed last week to testify before the House Oversight Committee because Republicans w...

Mass. Lawmaker: Soldiers' Home Needs Funding This May 2018 file photo shows an aerial view of the Holyoke Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, Mass., where dozens of residents died from the coronavirus during the 2020 pandemic. (Patrick Johnson/The Republican via AP) 18 Apr 2021 The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass. | By Jill Harmacinski A Merrimack Valley legislator charged with investigating COVID-19 deaths at the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke said millions of dollars in federal funding to build a new veterans' facility is an opport...

150% Having a job — any job — is connected to lower poverty, better income mobility, lower crime rates, fewer children born out-of-wedlock and a host of other positive results. But today the right to earn a living is becoming more difficult. In 1950, only around 5 percent of workers needed an occupational license – today, more than 20 percent of workers in Michigan are required to have this special government permission to work. Licensing requirements typically include mandated educational degrees, hours of training, upfront fees, testing, continuing education and more. But reform may b...

In an effort to address what legislators and advocates have called longstanding inequities at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, the House voted 160-0 Thursday afternoon to approve legislation authorizing $400 million in long-term borrowing to pay for a new facility.

The Department of Health and Humans Services has begun the process of undoing a Trump administration policy that prohibited some federal funding for abortion providers, a move that would reinstate funding to more than 1,000 women’s health clinics.