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Michigan Policast
"michigan league" Discussed on Michigan Policast
"But who cares didn't cost anything and you're eligible if you've already been vaccinated and you know if you're vaccinated last january like i was your eligible just as in if you don't get vaccinated until next week or the week after you're also eligible so get vaccinated. If you haven't already it gets signed up for the lottery and you too can be a millionaire. And maybe they'll have the ghost of regis philbin deliver the check to you. Or ed mcmahon one or the other well in case you don't win the lottery. As previously noted. The new jobs report came in friday with eight hundred. Fifty thousand jobs added to the economy. This energizes the debate over continued three hundred dollar week federal supplements for those collecting unemployment benefits in michigan now. A lot of employers. Most of them with low wage vacancies saying they can't find enough workers. Is it because of unemployment benefits or are there other factors involved and that was the subject of a magazine online forum during the week. Many employers complained that unemployment benefits encourage people to stay on the sidelines. Peter roark the michigan league for public policy contends that this is a simplistic answer to a more complicated issue. One thing that is worth mentioning it. That the ui benefit the people get the weekly benefa- even with that free hundred dollar federal attention that federal supplement is six hundred sixty two dollars a week. We do believe people want to work. We can always hear anecdotes. Maybe about Somebody saying they wanna just ride out unemployment insurance to the maximum number of weeks. Because they don't want to work and you know. I don't deny that maybe there are people that do that but our community engagement team in some of the other partners that we have been hearing. People want the security of having a job in response. The head of the michigan small business association. Brian kelly the question of laziness inter. I would not not accusing anybody of being lazy and not wanting to go off the federal unemployment benefit. But why would we expect anybody to make irrational personal financial decision to reenter the workforce if they've got other types giving transportation The commute they may be up the arrange for childcare. Maybe they can make fifteen or sixteen or seventeen or even We're we're hearing a latch from employers that even when they're over twenty dollars an hour they're still having a hard time even getting applicants and in part of that is because these are industries that were less at the table right..
WJR 760
"michigan league" Discussed on WJR 760
"Smith Show News Talk 7 60 wjr. We certainly have some good positive stories to share throughout the morning. But then there are these stories with some very tough statistics that we have to bear in mind with what's going on in the great state of Michigan. I'll ask the governor about this when she joins us at 7 49 this morning. But the report that came out yesterday by the N E. E. Casey Foundation in the Michigan League for public Policy. Providing a snapshot of Michigan childhood and family well being between the great recession and the year before the Covid 19 pandemic and since then, as well. We learned that 1.5 million households among the 3.9 million across Michigan are struggling to make ends meet, and we're struggling back in 2019. Which then leads us to say, according to these statistics, Michigan Ranks 28th in the nation in overall child will being not exactly where we want to be or where anyone wants to be. Our Marie Osborne, WJR senior news analyst has taken a deep dive into these struggled these troubling statistics. They give us a little bit more information and what exactly is going on and what maybe we can do about it? Good morning, Marie. And Good morning, Paul W. There are so many facts and figures inside this report. But as you said 1.5 million households among the 3.9 million across Michigan were struggling to make ends meet in 2019, and what you have to remember about that is That was pre pandemic. That's when the before the economy really took a dive due to the pandemic. So here's some of the numbers that were in this report that really are worthy of taking note. Poverty rates today are still higher than they were 20 years ago. In 2014% of Michigan, Children live in high poverty areas, or U. S. Census Bureau blocks were 30% or more of the households are below the poverty line, which by the way is 25,750 a year again. 14% of Michigan Kids live in those areas among the country's 50 largest cities. Detroit had the highest rate of Children living in poverty. Areas and that's at 72%. When it comes to education in Michigan, the national report again from the Antique Casey Foundation found the state lagging. Coming in at 41st in the country in 2019, the state had the third highest rate of fourth grade chronic absenteeism and the nation between 2017 and 2019 Get this 125,000 young people were not in school. At least 10% of Michigan household did not have Internet access in 2019 and low income earners are less likely to have ice high speed Internet again that connection to the Internet. For so many people. We realize that that is really your connection to the outside world and to some measure of prosperity again, So 10% of Michigan household Did not have Internet access. And in the 9th 2019 to 20 school year, almost 32,000 students in K through 12 experienced homelessness and more than 4500 kids were unaccompanied or not in the custody of a parent or guardian. So this gives you a clear snapshot of where our states Children are right now. And why? Maybe the state struggles so much in terms of trying to get our Uh, literacy rates up and to try to get our graduation rights up in the state of Michigan. Certainly clear snapshot, but not a pretty snapshot. And this is on the heels of of seeing the headlines that try. It is the most segregated city in America. This is on the heels of the headlines of the number of shootings that have skyrocketed almost to Chicago standards. God forbid. There's a lot that has to be done, and some of this work has been being done by the private sector. It was rocket mortgage that first, really in a very big way as a corporate entity. Has taken a hard look at this Internet divide the lack of Internet availability for so many people in Detroit. Hence the Rocket Mortgage classic, raising millions of dollars to try to Fix that problem. The governor Has announced $1.4 billion to expand affordable child care. With federal funds. Uh so there's a lot going on to try to fix some of these problems. But, boy, when you see these statistics, Marie, we realize just how far we've got to go under. Some of the toughest conditions and in part of those conditions again. Paul is the fact that we, uh, this these numbers were all done before the pandemic, so we can all acknowledge that during the pandemic, some of us got worse. Certainly, poverty rates and other yet right so they had to get worse. The one that startled me. The most, though, was the chronic absenteeism. Among Children in our state in 2019, the state had the third highest rate of fourth grade chronic absenteeism in the nation and you talk to any educator. Any schoolteacher. They're going to tell you. Those early grades in elementary school are critical for setting the trajectory for a student. And their educational career, right if they do well in those early years, if they are engaged in school, and they enjoy it, they're going to do better at getting to that graduation in 12th grade. At that were the third highest rate of fourth grade chronic absenteeism in Michigan. Just appalling. I mean, there's no other way to put it. It's appalling. And when those kids start to do better, A by showing up for school in the first place. Be by having parental involvement with the parents that are available Understanding how important that is. We all do better. When we change Children, one child at a time. I think this might have been what Clark Durant used to say. In the beginning of Cornerstone schools changing Children. One child at a time is changing society. And it's better for society better for the city of Detroit, better for the state of Michigan and these United States of America to fix these problems. To try to overcome these very tough, very real statistics that indicate that we are solo 28th in the nation in overall child well being. No one wants to sit there, knowing That 1.5 million households among the 3.9 million across Michigan were struggling to make ends meet in 2019. No one wants to even hear about what we've been taught here on this program on WJR. Something that that we never really thought of in the past, and that is food insecurity. The people among us who don't have enough to eat. It's almost Unthinkable. In this society and with this wealth Of of America. That there are still people who don't have enough to eat. And a lot of them right here in the Detroit area. Marie and a lot of them are our kids, So we need to keep that in mind. Absolutely nothing worse coming to mind when we used to go out on the bed and bread trucks, it's Salvation Army the worst moments. When the.
Pod Save the World
"michigan league" Discussed on Pod Save the World
"Okay let's turn to a very different issue. Which is john maher. So we talked about this a bunch but on february first neon mars military staged a coup against the democratically elected government in. There's just been this horrific ongoing. Crackdown ever since that. Crackdown is also included attacks. On in the detention of a lot of journalists including most recently a us citizen named danny fester who was the managing editor of the independent newspaper. Frontier myanmar so danny fencer with detained at the airport on may twenty fourth hughes preparing to fly home to see his family in michigan league. Them in like two years because of the pandemic you just been in prison ever since the military has ignored requests by his family and by the state department to contact him in any way so they have no idea what's happening to him and he's in a prison with a pretty horrifying Record from talking to pass Inmates so according to a reporters without borders eighty-six journalists have been arrested in myanmar since the coup journalism is basically been criminalized. Unless you are part of state run media does obviously terrifying for danny fencers family and friends. If you want to learn more about the case you can visit. Bring danny home. Dot com Ben anything else. You think we should talk about here. Image raise awareness. Basically but i know. I'm i'm glad that we're doing this i hope I know danny fencers cases. You know the the us embassies working on that but international tension is important in connecting it to this broader point about journalism like they've tried to basically shut down the internet. They've tried to silence anybody who's just kind of coming forward with the truth of what they're doing in myanmar. They're trying to turn it into kind of north korea. Not even north korea light. You know and it's on the one that that that's working in the sense that they're they're they have the levers of power and i should say that you're debt you mentioned. He's in this insane prison. Which is i've know people have been in there. It's it's It's a people are usually not treated well there. You would hope that he can get out of there soon. But i think more broadly. There's this kind of creeping concern. I think from people. I've heard from an opposition that while the us and other countries. And i think at the g seven. They'll probably be something on jan mar Are continuing to kind of reject. This coup There's this you know. From austin the southeast asian grouping of countries and you know there's this kind of when we need to talk to the junta. I think that there has to be an effort. Demographer not just to kind of punish the the military government but to to make sure that the rest of the world stands firm against an incredibly extremist government. That by the way like no support in myanmar. This is not like a close call and that is crashing. The economy like casting people in deep poverty exacerbating every division So what. I'd like to see his pressure on cases like danny's and other political prisoners journalists of all backgrounds there but also making sure that you know we're not letting me neighbors off the hook here they are interest are not served by this. This region will be more unstable less economically vibrant. If this path is one that they continue to go down. Yeah i mean. As far as i can tell the the people who support this cou i'm are are like you know. Sort of mid level. Russian generals and chinese generals were making their and then like mike. Flynn and the far right here in the. Us like those people who think this is a good thing which is really scary. Yeah no i mean this is the template for the american right like That's not something you want to You want to experience yes dark. Dark stuff okay. Let's talk about ransomware ben because like it feels like there's a new ransomware attack every month we got Meet manufacturers bills local governments a ferry to martha's vineyard apparently was one of them like you name it last month we talked about this ransomware attack on colonial pipeline which supplies fuel too much east coast. Here's a little bit of good news. So the department of justice today announced that they're able to trace in seas two point three million dollars of the four million worth of bitcoins. There were part of the ransom. Paid out by colonial pipeline to this group called side. Our friend and former colleague lisa. Monaco made this announcement. She's the deputy attorney general But while doj is busy hunting hackers ben and had successor. President trump is floating a different approach for dealing with ransomware tax. I think we should really take seriously and consider so. Here's a clip. How do we stop it. The commerce old fashioned form of accounting and things you know i have a son who still good with. Computers is a young person. And i mean he can make these things sing and when you put everything on internet and on all of these machines you'd never see a piece of paper. I really think you have to go back to a different form of of Accounting yeah there. We go like pretty soon. Trump's going to be like on those ads on fox where they're telling scaring people in the buying gold you know. I think rand paul's on those. Have you seen that clip in the early nineties on the today show where where the hosts are like. What is internet talking to the producer. Trump's response is basically like go back to the abacus. I don't know barron showing the internet. Is i mean i. Your finer is pretty interesting on this. This is going to clearly be subject of growing concern. The what else. But also i think internationally through nato and other venues. Because it's just like we're in a new normal tommy like watching this. This is life in the rest of our lives of like this kind of constant a symmetric cyber threat and russia clearly doesn't give a shit and this is kind of part of you know 'cause i i just don't think that these russian cybercriminals could operate from russian soil without at least a wink from their autocratic government and so this this cyber attacks disinformation campaigns. Like this is kind of part of this kind of asymmetric war that we are living in. You know yeah. So i guess. Trump solution is to to buy some golden. Put it under the bed. Don't do that. That's not the solution by gold's print everything out go from their receipts. I guess curious from. Cvs number Speaking of technologies that are causing a new normal here so there was a united nations report that caught my attention which said that. A military drone used in libya's civil war last year may have attacked soldiers fully autonomously in other words. It may have been programmed to go up in the sky. And if it sees a target attack it without any kind of data link between that drone in its operator so there's no human controlling The thing this report is a little murky. The details are not confirmed but his kick started this broader conversation about ai and weapon systems so this particular drone made by a turkish company. It doesn't fire. Missiles like a predator or reaper drones instead of basically like hangs out over an area until it sees a target. And then it just dive bombs it and explodes a three pound charge when it's close to the target. Whatever it is. I watched this just terrifying little promotional video of the tone by the manufacturer. So they show how you can use them impacts to swarm target so straight up nightmare fuel like a just a swarm of drones coming towards you and blowing stuff up but regardless of what happened in libya like this is coming. It is understandably Quite alarming to human rights groups in anyone who doesn't want to be chased around by like a murder roomba organization called stop killer robots dot. Org that is advocating for fully banning these kinds of weapons which sounds great to me But so far. There's not a lot of momentum behind creating some sort of international treaty to do so Bend did this come up at all by the time. You're like leaving the white house and you know anything you want to say to our autonomous killer robot overlords before it's too late. Yeah it did. Come up i mean and again people will add us on this and rightly so but when when obama did put out in two thousand thirteen you'll remember can be declassified..