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Contact your State Representative and Senator and tell them to support a DHS and DOC budget that provides for sufficient staff to serve the citizens of Michigan. Click Here to send an automated email.

The House and Senate passed legislation which allows $3.1 million in stimulus dollars to be used by the Department of Human Services to hire 200 temporary workers for field offices through the end of the fiscal year. Officials are expecting some 100,000 idled workers to qualify for food stamps as they exhaust their unemployment benefits over that period. DHS gets another $500,000 for the purpose of reaching low income persons who may be eligible for assistance. It is expected that these positions will continue into the next fiscal year with additional stimulus dollars.

 by Ray Holman 

Senate Budget Bill 248 passed the full Michigan Senate on June 18, 2009.  The budget bill has now moved over to the Michigan House of Representatives.  The UAW Local 6000 Legislative Team has reviewed the bill and found serious issues and concerns

Submitted by Miya Williamson

At a recent Senate Subcommitte Hearing Corrections officials received a thorough tongue-lashing and were admonished not to wait until Oct. 1, 2009 to realize savings