Month: March 2021

House’s passage of OWI expungement continues bipartisan support for smart justice reforms

House’s passage of OWI expungement continues bipartisan support for smart justice reforms house’s-passage-of-owi-expungement-continues-bipartisan-support-for-smart-justice-reforms

For Immediate Release March 10, 2021 Contact: Alex Rossmanarossman@mlpp.org 517-775-9053 LANSING—The Michigan League for Public Policy issued the following statement on the Michigan House’s passage today of House Bills 4219 and 4220, legislation that would allow residents to have first-time operating while intoxicated offenses expunged five years after their monitoring by the justice system ends. […]

Poverty Task Force outlines concrete steps to tackle economic inequity

Poverty Task Force outlines concrete steps to tackle economic inequity poverty-task-force-outlines-concrete-steps-to-tackle-economic-inequity

This article originally appeared in The Alpena News on March 3, 2021. As an organization that has been working to promote economic security in Michigan since 1912, we know how pervasive and persistent poverty is. We also know that our work is most important in times of crisis. Our organization’s role and goals really crystallized […]

Child care financing reform: A critical next step for Michigan families and the economy

Child care financing reform: A critical next step for Michigan families and the economy child-care-financing-reform:-a-critical-next-step-for-michigan-families-and-the-economy

      The worldwide COVID-19 crisis raised awareness of both the importance of child care to the state’s economy and the fragility of child care businesses. Child care providers were struggling to make ends meet for their businesses long before COVID-19 shut many down, and those that remained open could manage only with an […]

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