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According to new data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, 14% of people in Michigan last year lived in poverty. As the Detroit News reports that is,…

The Michigan League for Human Services (MLHS) released its "Economic Security Bulletin" today.The report showed the unemployment rate dropping in 82 of…

Update 11:41 a.m.:Democratic Congressman Sander Levin will testify at a state Senate hearing in Lansing this afternoon about the proposed redistricting…

The vast web of geometries traced out in light shows you cities as a kind of infestation. They're like living networks spreading across the planet.

Two nonprofit advocacy groups in Colorado are trying to take back the moniker as something to be proud of. The president has said he likes the term, which has been used derisively by opponents of the health overhaul.

Ford Motor Company reports strong profits for the third quarter. The company made $1.6 billion, despite a stagnant U.S. economy. The company's profit was…

Iain Sinclair, the foremost modern practitioner of "psychogeographic" nonfiction, explores the modifications to the London landscape in preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics. This "scam of scams," as he calls it, is an expression of British state egotism.

GM Announces New InvestmentsGeneral Motors announced yesterday it will invest a total of $2 billion in 17 of its U.S. plants. The investment means the…

Budget CompleteGovernor Rick Snyder has signed a new state budget into law. The budget is for the fiscal year that begins October 1st. The budget…

Today elected officials in Grand Rapids adopted a budget for 2012. The plan closes a $6 million budget gap in the city’s general fund.The plan includes…