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Some Michigan teachers are taking on summer side hustles as a result of low pay in schools. Then, how Congress's major tax and spending plan affects rural hospitals. Plus, a new book created for older elementary students reading below grade-level.

Michigan's health director spent a year and $30 million building a work requirements system for Medicaid. The problems he encountered have him worried now that 40 states must do the same by 2027.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer wants a waiver to delay the impacts of Medicaid cuts on Michiganders. State House Speaker Matt Hall says that's OK, as long as the cuts happen.

The Democratic governor said she had no qualms about partnering with a Republican president with whom she once had a fractious relationship.

Consumer confidence declined through the first half of 2025, according to a new U-M survey. Also, a group in the Upper Peninsula is organizing to preserve the memory of labor icon “Big Annie." Plus, we checked in with a fourth-generation Michigan farmer as he navigates uncertainty in the agricultural sector.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina say Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” could put three Michigan hospitals among those at risk of closure and service reductions.

Republicans and Democrats have proposed different multi-billion-dollar road funding plans this year. But massive federal funding cuts to state level social programs, like Medicaid, may force some of that funding to go elsewhere.

Last week, President Donald Trump signed legislation into law slashing a trillion dollars in federal funding for state Medicaid programs over the next decade.

More than 1.4 million Michiganders receive food assistance through SNAP, and more than half of those are families with kids.

Two perspectives on how cuts to Medicaid and Social Security could have a significant impact on vulnerable populations.