teacher pensions

A new law allows retired teachers to be temporarily rehired six months after their retirement date, without losing some of their income from pensions or forfeiting other retirement benefits.

Thousands of Detroit district school employees may reap the benefits of a lawsuit over pension funding as soon as March.School employees who worked for…

George Orwell’s classic Cold War novel 1984 depicted a world where everything was controlled by a nightmarish dictatorship where history was constantly…

Governor Rick Snyder has signed into law controversial changes to the state’s public school employee retirement system.Starting in February of 2018, new…

These are busy days in Lansing. Among other things, the legislature is working out the final details of the state budget before its summer recess. Last…

A deal for the state’s budget and teacher retirement has been made.Top Republican lawmakers and Governor Rick Snyder have been in a stalemate over what to…

There’s no end yet to the standoff between Governor Rick Snyder and the Legislature’s Republican leaders that’s delayed wrapping up the state budget. But…

There’s a legend that Secretary of State Dean Rusk summed up what happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis by saying, “We were eyeball to eyeball, and I think…

At the 2017 Mackinac Policy Conference this week, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan flatly explained to a mostly white audience the systematic racism that shaped…

For the first time since he's been governor, the leaders from the state House and Senate have signed a target budget agreement without Rick Snyder's…