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A new report by the Michigan League for Human Services finds that long-term unemployment is at the highest rate since such measures began to be tracked in the state of Michigan. More than half of Michigan’s unemployed adults of prime working age (25-54) last year spent a half year or longer looking for jobs – the longest on record, the 2011 Labor Day Report from the Michigan League for Human Services concludes.

In light of the rally this afternoon that I wrote about earlier, the American Civil Liberties Union is cautioning that comprehensive immigration reform

Forbes magazine has an article about a new report that looks at a new market developing for companies that are inventing techniques to clean up the toxic liquid mix recovered from hydrofracking natural gas wells. The report focuses mostly on the Marcellus Shale, which underlies most of the Appalachian basin under New York, Pennsylvania, and parts of Maryland, Ohio, and West Virginia

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) has still not made a decision about whether to lift her hold on President Obama’s nominee to head the White House Office of

Bob Woodward’s new book, entitled Obama’s Wars, will be released next Monday. The book covers the Obama administration’s decision-making process about troop

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Monday they had filed charges against the owner of a Lansing medical marijuana dispensary who allegedly offered free pot for registering to vote. Skekina Pena, owner of Your Healthy Choice Clinic, was arraigned Monday at 54-A District Court for “influencing voters with Money or other valuable consideration.” Pena was released on a personal bond of $3,500.

PITTSBURGH - The conversation with Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) heated up a bit as he took questions on what he could do to bring Republicans on board with

One of the more disturbing appendices to the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on torture comes from the Office of Medical Services. On September 4, 2003, the

In lieu of another War on Christmas panic, it seems that the conservative culture war of December 2009 will be over James Cameron’s much-hyped,

The judiciary committee hearing seemed a little backward -- with Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy calling for a truth commission and Republican Sen. Arlen Specter pushing for a full-fledged prosecution.

Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary, was asked today whether the administration will insist on the creation of a separate consumer financial protection

One of the greatest obstacles to overarching energy policy reform is likely to come in the form of a group of moderate Democratic senators from states that rely

In a new series of automated phone calls launched today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) again calls on citizens to tell Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, to “come clean” about ethics violations

That didn’t take long. On the first day of the 111th Congress, House Democrats are already targeting the last-minute regulations passed down by the Bush

Texas Gov.

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain will be in the Sunshine State this week, for stops in both Tampa and Sanford.

Last week, U.S. Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) introduced H.R. 937, which was submitted with the curious name, “The Rising Tides Act of 2011.” The

Recent policies put both illegal and legal works at risk.

If anyone thought that a liberal President Obama, backed by large Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, was just going to write his way through

Investigators have determined that Bill Sparkman, the census worker who was found dead with an anti-federal government message scrawled on his body, committed

Mixing classic rightwing economics and Christianist populism, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a rapt crowd in a Minneapolis hotel Tuesday night that “government is taking from the overly happy and redistributing to the insufficiently happy.”

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.