Gov. Whitmer’s budget focuses on stable future, investments targeted at Michiganders’ greatest needs
For Immediate Release Feb. 9, 2022 Contact: Alex Rossman arossman@mlpp.org 517-775-9053 Gov. Whitmer’s budget focuses on stable future, investments targeted at Michiganders’ greatest needs [...]
Here’s what lawmakers have done—and must keep doing—to help people amid the coronavirus pandemic
This column originally appeared in Michigan Advance on March 12, 2021. On March 13, 2020, I wrote a column for the Michigan Advance outlining some public policy solutions to reduce […]
Block Granting Food Assistance: An Unnecessary Change That Would Hurt Michigan Families
April 2017 Peter Ruark, Senior Policy Analyst The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called Food Stamps, is an important federal program that helps families and [...]
Michigan, 20 years after “welfare reform”
It was 20 years ago, in 1996, that Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act that transformed cash assistance from a federal entitlement program [...]