Special Veterans Event + The People’s News 6/27

Happy Monday, Michigan! It's a beautiful day, but unfortunately we can't say the same thing for what's brewing inside of our State Capitol.

While politicians continue pass legislation hurting our working men and women, including our veterans, tomorrow we'll be honoring Michigan's veterans in a special event with Army veteran and Congressman John Dingell at UAW 723 (281 Detroit Ave, Monroe) at 5:30pm and we hope you'll join us as we fight the attacks. You can learn more about this event and others in your area by texting MI to 225568.

In the meantime, here are today’s top news stories…

AP: House Dems to call on GOP to restore K-12 funds

House Democ­rats are call­ing on Michi­gan Gov. Rick Sny­der and GOP law­mak­ers to restore money cut from pub­lic schools… They also want to keep the school aid fund from being used for any­thing besides pub­lic schools. The new bud­get allo­cates some of the school aid fund to uni­ver­si­ties and com­mu­nity colleges.

FREE PRESS COLUMN: Rochelle Riley: Snyder’s gam­ble is a big risk

Snyder’s ratio­nale for help­ing busi­nesses was sim­ple: They cre­ate jobs. Prob­lem is, there’s noth­ing in the leg­is­la­tion that actu­ally requires com­pa­nies to hire or retain peo­ple in Michi­gan or oth­er­wise change any­thing they’re doing. That means Sny­der gave our tax dol­lars to busi­nesses based on a pinkie swear.

MLIVE COLUMN: In Michi­gan, the mid­dle class is in danger

There is a well-founded worry in this coun­try for the future of the mid­dle class, which grew rapidly after World War II but has strug­gled over the past sev­eral decades. In Michi­gan, the mid­dle class is under siege as hun­dreds of thou­sands of low-skill, high-wage man­u­fac­tur­ing jobs have dis­ap­peared. What will it take to rebuild it?

LSJ: Uni­ver­si­ties stay below 7 per­cent tuition cap — barely

Col­lege stu­dents this fall will pay more than twice as much in tuition at the state’s 15 pub­lic uni­ver­si­ties as stu­dents paid 10 years ago, tak­ing about $5,000 more out of their pock­ets. Weary par­ents cop­ing with the finan­cial chal­lenges of falling home prices, stag­nant wages and lay­offs are won­der­ing when the increases will stop.

We're a diverse coali­tion of stu­dents, seniors, work­ers, fam­i­lies and orga­ni­za­tions fight­ing to pro­tect Michigan’s middle class.

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