The sweeping and draconian cuts to Medicaid by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans have left healthcare advocates around the country reeling.
As Congress considers slashing SNAP by up to $319 billion, community-driven markets and food programs are stepping up to fight food insecurity—and support local entrepreneurs.
The more than $290 billion cuts to federal food assistance programming being passed through Congress in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will cost Michigan about $900 million, the Michigan State Budget Office found this week.
Michigan could lose 13,000 jobs in the next several years due to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign goods, according to economists from University of Michigan.
President Donald Trump announced far-reaching new tariffs on nearly all US trading partners—a 34% tax on imports from China and 20% on the European Union, among others—that threaten to dismantle much of the architecture of the global economy and trigger broader trade wars.
About two years ago, tents started to show up in my neighborhood along the creek beds and in small stands of trees. Most only became visible when the leaves fell, exposing their orange rainflies and blue tarps. This increase in houselessness didn’t feel surprising...
It started in the back seat of my family’s Jeep Cherokee, the one with the broken AC and vinyl seats that stuck to my thighs in the late summer heat. After school we would wait, all the doors flung open, for my dad to get off work. My mother reading in the front...
My dad raised us to work hard and do good for our families, but he was also going to make damn sure we didn’t step on anyone else along the way.
In the quest to make apple trees more resilient in a warming climate, some Michigan researchers are looking for a late bloomer.
The Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has detected highly pathogenic avian influenza in an Ottawa County flock, following an investigation from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD).
