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Group files petition today to bump minimum wage to $9.50"The campaign to raise Michigan’s minimum wage has settled on a target of $9.50 an hour. The group…

Snyder holds town hall meeting on Prop 6 today"Governor Snyder will hold a town hall meeting with members of the Canada-United States Business Association…

The Next IdeaWhen we hear the term “perfect storm,” the image that generally comes to mind is one of a high-level disaster.The phrase is relatively new,…

Los Angeles is considering raising its minimum wage from $9 to $15 an hour in order to help its 800,000 residents in poverty. But no major city has yet raised its wage this dramatically or this fast.

The Orange Is The New Black author says that cooking behind bars allowed her to bond with fellow inmates, and points out where her experiences, and those depicted in the hit Netflix series, differ.

GM CEO Mary Barra will receive an Appeal of Conscience Award on September 23rd from the interfaith organization Appeal of Conscience Foundation.Barra is…

This week in politics: Jeb Bush isn't doing a great job of separating himself from his brother, the GOP's diversity problem and were the polls really wrong again?

Grace Lee Boggs celebrates her 99th birthday this week.The Detroit woman is an icon of the Black Power, civil rights and labor movements.She was born to…

DETROIT (AP) - Convincing executives that Detroit is a comeback city where they should hold meetings and conventions can only be characterized as the most…

Oil sits under a pristine swath of the rainforest. Ecuador promised to leave the forest untouched — if the rest of the world would pay up.