“I was laid off from my machining job in late March as the company started to shut down preemptively. The next week, I applied for unemployment, before the pandemic unemployment assistance from Whitmer and was denied due to an error. I reapplied for the PUA and it took three and a half weeks to get...
“Since the mandatory quarantine began, I’ve been trying to make things better for my patients and others in need. “I’m a counselor working in the substance abuse and dependency field. Substance abuse often occurs with other mental health issues so, right now, it’s critical that people like me can do our jobs. “People have increased...
“When the day care where my wife works closed in the second week of March, I helped her file for unemployment online. “Aside from all of the usual information she [also] shared her individual taxpayer identification number, but they never asked for her green card number – she is a green card holder. “Five weeks...
"We still don’t know how many paid the ultimate price because of these policies”, Sen. Aric Nesbitt, R-Lawton, said before voting.
Michigan workers have seen one of the worst economic shocks in the country, on top of persistent problems with the state’s unemployment system.
Regardless of when the economy is fully reopened, Michigan policymakers should prepare for economic recovery through tax and regulatory reforms.
One Democratic lawmaker called Whitmer's nursing home policy the "most idiotic thing we could come up with.”
Detroit Democrat Leslie Love said the move is “not a good idea.”
With heavy job losses in hospitality, manufacturing and construction, Michiganders are experiencing the worst economic pain in the region.