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☆ A guaranteed income program in Flint, Michigan offers new mothers $500 every month for the first year of their child's life
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The new guaranteed income program called Rx Kids offers "no-strings-attached love," according to its website. Related storiesThe program provides expectant moms with $1,500 during pregnancy and another $500 each month throughout a baby's first year, according to the Rx Kids website. The website says the program is the "first-ever citywide cash prescription program for pregnant moms and babies." In its program, the city offers $1,000 to young mothers every month to spend however they want. AdvertisementUniversal basic income programs and their like-minded cousins — guaranteed basic income programs like Rx Kids that target certain groups of people instead of entire populations — have been largely successful (even in Republican-led states that offer staunch opposition) at addressing poverty and homelessness.

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☆ A Dollar General developer sued a Michigan town after it said 'no' to one of the chain's stores
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Residents in Nottawa Township, Michigan, prevented a Dollar General store from opening in their town. But Dollar General is opening the store anyway after its developer sued the town. Dollar General is one of the fastest-growing retailers in the US and on track to have 20,000 stores. But the developer, Midwest V LLC, who was working on behalf of Dollar General, responded by suing the town. Dollar General is among the retailers opening the most new stores in the US.

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☆ CEO apologizes after ‘pity city’ speech backfires
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —The CEO whose “pity city” speech backfired spectacularly is now apologizing to her employees. “I feel terrible that my rallying cry seemed insensitive,” wrote Andi Owen, chief executive of office furniture giant MillerKnoll, in an email to staff Tuesday. “Don’t ask about ‘what are we going to do if we don’t get a bonus?’ Get the damn $26 million,” she said, citing an internal metric. Can I get some commitment for that?”She continued: “I had an old boss who said to me one time, ‘you can visit pity city but you can’t live there.’ So people: Leave pity city. The median employee income at MillerKnoll, the company behind sleek office furniture brands such as Herman Miller and Design Within Reach, was $44,810.

☆ Michigan six-year-old orders $1,000 worth of food on Grubhub
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Six-year-old Mason Stonehouse was playing on his dad’s phone before bedtime and spent about $1,000 on Grubhub orders. The food started coming to the Chesterfield Township family’s home near Detroit around 9 pm Saturday night. Why are you bringing me food?” his perplexed dad asked a food delivery driver according to an interview with CNN affiliate WDIV-TV. Mason ordered basically every food that ever existed, including shrimp, salads, shawarma, chicken pita wraps, sandwiches, chili cheese fries and multiple orders of ice cream. His father tried calling the restaurants to stop the orders once he figured out what had happened, but they told him to contact Grubhub.

☆ ‘F---ing nightmare’: Trump team does damage control after he dines with Ye and white supremacist Nick Fuentes
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Marc Caputo | Marc Caputo Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

But despite Trump’s suggestion the event was “uneventful,” the fallout over his dinner with Fuentes appears to have thrown Trump’s campaign into damage control mode. In addition to Giorno and Fuentes, Ye also brought along another man who was an associate, according to the sources. Fuentes attended that event and, after Trump said he denounced white supremacy at the rally, Fuentes denounced him for that. In his video debrief, Ye said that “Trump is really impressed with Nick Fuentes. “I’m like hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, Trump.

Gretchen Whitmer defeated Republican challenger Tudor Dixon on Tuesday, securing her bid for re-election and keeping a Democrat atop the critical swing state, NBC News projects. But Whitmer held on, boosted by tens of millions of dollars in ad spending that Dixon, a former right-wing commentator endorsed by former President Donald Trump, never matched. Whitmer and Lt. Gov. Whitmer, who made the shortlist as Joe Biden searched for a running mate in 2020, has been the subject of future White House speculation. Despite Michigan's swing-state status, Republicans were slow to invest there and never caught up with the other side's spending.

☆ Michigan Proposal 2: Voters will decide whether voting policies should go into the state constitution
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Taiyler Simone Mitchell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Michigan Proposal 2 would add several voting policies to the state constitution. Opponents argue that putting the proposal into the state constitution goes too far. Ballot measure detailsKnown as the Voting Policies in Constitution Amendment, the proposal aims to add a slew of new voting policies to Michigan's constitution, including the establishment of a nine-day early voting period, the requirement of a signed affidavit or photo identification for voting, and access to absentee voting. Opponents of the proposal argue that putting the proposal into the constitution is too big of a step. "The kinds of things in it (Proposal 2) I believe are very problematic when you try to put it in a constitution.

He’s scheduled to headline a Saturday rally for Dixon and other GOP candidates in the state. Through Nov. 8, Whitmer and the Democrats have reserved $24 million in ads for the Michigan governor’s race. And the two most recent polls have shown Whitmer leading Dixon by double digits. “Isn’t that sad that Democrats have to spend so much money?” Dixon said at a news conference Tuesday when asked if she was disappointed in the lack of assistance for her campaign. The Republican Governors Association still has $3.6 million budgeted for ads in Michigan, though a spokesperson acknowledged the funding gap.

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