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Legislature Passes Protections for Families Struggling With Debt
House Bills 4900, 4901 would shield homes, wages, and public benefits from excessive collections LANSING, Mich. (Dec. 23, 2024) — The Michigan Legislature has passed House Bills 4900 and 4901 to ensure that Michigan residents are not pushed into poverty by...
Michigan Senate Passes Bills to Improve Pollution Cleanup
LANSING, Mich. (Dec. 16, 2024) — Senate Democrats passed polluter accountability legislation Friday to require polluters to clean up more thoroughly, to improve transparency about polluted sites, and to make it easier for those harmed by pollution to seek justice....
Michigan Senate Passes Bipartisan Legislation to Improve Public Safety and Community Trust With Police
Bill package carries forward previous bipartisan work, developed with Michiganders, law enforcement officials, and community leader LANSING, Mich. (Dec. 13, 2024) — Earlier today, the Michigan Senate voted in bipartisan fashion to pass several bills to improve police...
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Proposed cuts to food assistance will hurt kids, older adults, and our state budget.
Parents of kids shouldn't get cut off when their kids are older and hungrier and older adults shouldn't be cut off, forcing them to choose between rising costs for food, medicine, and housing.
What's more, Republicans are proposing to hit states with hundreds of millions of dollars in new costs for the food assistance program. Republican's new bureaucratic costs are going to make it harder for states to fill these holes in food assistance as well as the holes in our roads or our education budgets.
www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/house-reconciliation-bill-proposes-deepest-snap-cut-in-hist.... ... See MoreSee Less
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Michigan needs to follow through on our new literacy laws. Last year, we passed literacy legislation that weaves the science of reading into early elementary reading instruction.
Now, we need a budget that follows through on the training, literacy coaches, and high-quality literacy materials that we need. Unfortunately, the House proposes to cut these funds, leaving districts to haphazardly invest in literacy, or not.
I hope and expect that the huge bipartisan support for this crucial legislation last fall means that we can count on these resources being included in the final budget. ... See MoreSee Less
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Michigan needs better protections from pollution. Our laws allow polluters to keep their discharges secret and allows polluters to manage exposure rather than a real cleanup.
We need to close these loopholes because people have a right to know about pollution released in their neighborhoods and we need to require better cleanups to remove pollution rather than leaving it for future generations.
Here is my full testimony explaining our polluter accountability legislation. ... See MoreSee Less
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