The New York Times had an article on Saturday about the Med Grow Cannabis College, a new school in Southfield that promises to teach state residents the ins and outs of growing marijuana within the confines of Michigan’s new medical marijuana laws.
“This state needs jobs, and [...]
A new report from the University of Michigan’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics concludes that while we may be nearing the end of the worst decline, job growth in Michigan will continue to be virtually non-existent until 2011 — and it won’t exactly be going like gangbusters after that. The [...]
Wind farm=green manufacturing jobs. They also equal lease payments to local property owners, who can avoid turning farms into semi-liquid retirement funds, sold off to developers bit by bit. Good news for the Bay area ... stuff our good friends in the trades can do instead of doing temp [...]
The Detroit News is reporting that the Detroit Police Department will put another 150 police officers onto streets in neighborhoods around the city. 100 of this comes from police officers being reassigned from desk jobs, with the balance coming from the addition of new police officers thanks [...] I wonder if part of the severence package* is an independent distributors' kit and a piece of paper with the name and phone number of the diamond they're supposed to report to.
ADA -- Amway Corp. announced today it expects to eliminate 93 jobs, mostly at its Ada headquarters, over [...]
The Detroit Free Press reports on their own study of more than 1,800 government reports that concludes, despite state government claims that stimulus project spending has created or retained 22,500 jobs in Michigan, that stimulus money has failed to create any significant number of jobs at all since the [...]
15.2% Unemployment - Muskegon Chronicle October 22, 2009
Nearly One Million Jobs Lost in the Past 10 Years - WJRT TV, November, 11 2009
420,000 individuals and small businesses have fled the state during the past ten years - taking $9.5 billion in taxable income out of' [...]
In 2005, the Supreme Court decided 5-4 that New London, Connecticut, could condemn and acquire 26 acres of a neighborhood to build hotels, and condos, near a Pfizer research center. The city spent nearly $80 million preparing the land.
On Thursday, Pfizer announced that 1,400 jobs would leave [...]
