Insider Intelligence

Michigan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate last month remained unchanged from the prior month at 4.2%. Total employment increased by 2,000, while unemployment rose by 3,000. Last month’s rate is higher than the national average of 3.7%. In the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn market the June 2019 unemployment rate was 4.6%, one-tenth of a percentage point over the prior month. […]

The House and Senate are tentatively scheduled to hold session Tuesday – Thursday.

Below are some of the articles that the MLC lobby team has been reading this past week. We hope you find them as interesting and useful as we do. Designing Smart-Home Products That People Will Actually Use – While there has been an increase in smart-home technology, it hasn’t become mainstream yet. How can creators […]

MLC lobbyist Rudy Hobb shared the reasons that residents should be engaged in the 2020 Census. To address the skilled-labor gap in Michigan, the state launched a new public-private partnership program. Legislation was introduced that would set a five-year moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology. To help prevent Asian carp from entering the […]

To address the skilled-labor gap in Michigan, the state has launched a new public-private partnership program named Going PRO. Through 2026 it’s estimated the state will need to fill 545,00 skilled-labor jobs. Michigan employers’ have been facing challenges finding highly skilled employees and cited it as a top concern in the recent Michigan Future Business […]

For the next five-years there would be a moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology under legislation introduced this week. Representative Isaac Robinson’s (D-Detroit) bill would prevent the use of facial recognition software to obtain warrants or otherwise enforce the law. The prohibition includes footage obtained from surveillance cameras, unmanned aircraft, body cameras, and […]

To help prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin, Governor Gretchen Whitmer entered a coalition with other governors and premiers. The focus will be on taking action at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River in Illinois, which provides a strategic focal point in the waterway that logically […]

This week, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced her plans to intervene in four utility rate cases. Currently, three providers have filed with the Michigan Public Service Commission to increase their residential consumers’ rates and a fourth is anticipated to also request a rate increase. The Attorney General citied protecting ratepayers as her reason for intervening […]