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Banks get a lot of bad press. So do check-cashing outfits. Payday lenders may get the worst press of the three.All of them are just businesses, trying to…

Mark Jackson settles into his chair, and takes a sip of coffee. He’s been in interviews all morning, meeting with high school students and parents…

Here is a fact you might not know: In the decade between 2003 to 2013, no other state cut its spending on college scholarships as much as Michigan. Only…

It’s a frigid Thursday morning in Jonesville, a small town southwest of Jackson. Bob Drake is trying his best not to make a mistake."It has to be exact…

The Michigan League for Public Policy released its latest Kids Count report this morning. The report tries to quantify how our state's children are doing,…

Temperatures are expected to dip below zero again tomorrow morning in parts of lower Michigan.It’s been a long winter for all of us. But for those…

Last week, a Kids Count report had this shocking statistic to share; almost one out of every 10 kids in Michigan lives in a family investigated for abuse…

It’s hard to remember now. Naton Brown isn’t sure what year it was. But she was eight years old."Yeah, I don’t remember," she tells me. "I just know that…

Infowire fills the information gap and meets the news needs of families struggling to make ends meet. Get all Infowire alerts by texting INFOWIRE to…

Michigan Radio social media guru Kimberly Springer sent me a write-up about a new data system being sold to school systems as a way to identify potential…