The Detroit Regional Chamber on Wednesday urged the Legislature's incoming Democratic and Republican leaders to "govern from the broad center" and focus efforts in the new session on business attraction, work skills development and education improvement.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer suspended the work search requirement in March of 2020 as the state’s unemployment rate soared above 22 percent amid forced business closures that aimed to control the spread of COVID-19.
But with the state unemployment rate now back near five percent, the Whitmer administration is planning to restore the requirement. The Unemployment Insurance Agency has not specified an exact date, but the state has begun telling claimants it will happen “soon.”
“Plans are to reinstate the work search requirement at the end of this month,” UIA spokesperson Lynda Robinson said Tuesday. “Claimants will need to actively search for work and report at least one work search activity per week for each week they claim benefits.”
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer spoke about promoting civility in state politics during an address to Detroit business leaders.
Whitmer, who has faced criticism from Republicans for her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 presidential election, urged the Detroit Regional Chamber on Friday to play a role in softening the political discourse in the Wolverine State.
“I think that it s really important in this moment that the chamber and the members of the chamber lean in and hold people who espouse rhetoric that is dangerous accountable and play a real role here,” she said, according to the