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      <title>Advocates look for policies to lower Michigan gender pay gap as new report shows slight widening</title>
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      <description>In the Michigan Senate, a salary history ban is awaiting a floor vote. A similar bill in the state House of Representatives has been stalled in committee for around a year.</description>
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      <title>New jobs report shows decline in number of people working, seeking work</title>
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      <description>The revised number shows Michigan essentially held steady in 2025, instead of showing likely job gains in the early wave of data collected.</description>
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      <dc:creator>Rick Pluta</dc:creator>
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      <title>Midland tops national list for best place to retire</title>
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      <description>Of the 859 cities studied by the US News &amp; World Report, Midland ranked first on the 2026 best places to retire list.</description>
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      <dc:creator>Brianna Edgar</dc:creator>
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      <title>Report reveals nearly 2 million Michigan households can’t afford basic needs</title>
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      <description>More households across Michigan are struggling to make ends meet today than there were a decade ago, according to a new United Way report on financial hardships in the state.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 23:04:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Michelle Jokisch Polo</dc:creator>
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      <title>Population report shows warning for Michigan's future</title>
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      <description>A new state report predicts Michigan’s population will decline by 2050.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:51:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Colin Jackson | MPRN</dc:creator>
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      <title>Michigan fails three out of five categories in 2017’s tobacco report</title>
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      <description>Michigan failed on more than half of the criteria on a recent report card from the American Lung Association.The association gave Michigan three F’s, a D,…</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:31:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nestle releases new report on company’s economic impact in Michigan</title>
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      <description>A new report indicates Nestle Waters North America employs roughly 280 Michiganders and spends 51 million dollars annually on Michigan goods and…</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2017 18:50:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Michigan ranks 32nd for overall child well being, report finds</title>
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      <description>Michigan ranked 32nd among states for overall well being of kids in the state.That’s according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation which…</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:14:22 GMT</pubDate>
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