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General Motors is laying off about 1,700 workers across manufacturing sites in Michigan and Ohio, as the auto giant adjusts to slowing demand for electric vehicles.
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If the government shutdown extends beyond Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children could be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families.
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The U.S. job market showed more signs of weakness Friday, as the Labor Department reported just 22,000 jobs added in August. Revised figures show the economy lost jobs in June, for the first time since the pandemic winter of 2020.
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For years, the U.S. was essentially "an extension of our domestic market," says an Etsy seller in Canada. But now the rules and costs are far more imposing.
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Large blocks of federal data have disappeared or been altered. University of Michigan researcher Margaret Levenstein discusses what's been lost and the long-term risks.
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EV sales will be robust in the final weeks of the federal tax credit, says an industry consulting group.
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One of the world's largest food brands is splitting apart a decade after a messy megamerger staged by Warren Buffett.
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In one of the country's priciest housing markets, Utah's leaders worry young people are shut out from building wealth. But despite new incentives, few developers are signing on to build smaller homes.
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Last fall, Henry Ford Health finalized a joint venture with Ascension Michigan. A local union president said now the new owners want to change nurse-to-patient ratios at Henry Ford Genesys in Grand Blanc.
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First, an expert from the University of Michigan weighed in on the potentially dangerous effects of the Trump administration's changes to personnel in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Then, we heard from a curator of a new materials exhibition at Michigan State University detailing campus life during the Vietnam War. Plus, the Director of the Vatican Observatory, born a Detroiter, gave an inside look into the Vatican's relationship with the stars.
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Economists at the University of Michigan's Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics forecast have to negotiate around some uncertainties because of tariffs.
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The Republican state House speaker and the Democratic Senate majority leader both say they'd support withholding lawmakers' pay if the Legislature misses a budget deadline.