Rick SNYDER“The underlying key to success...is to change our culture.”
Barack OBAMA“The nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it - we need Michigan...”
Washington — A record 20 million-plus people collected unemployment benefits at some point in 2009, a year that ended with the jobless rate at 10 percent.
Despite starting the year in recession and riding through one of stock market's biggest crashes in March, shares in the majority of large, publicly traded firms headquartered in the state head toward New Year's Eve showing gains.
If your holiday wasn't like mine, count yourself lucky. If it was, then you added the rare Christmas Eve tradition of listening not for the prancing and pawing of reindeer on the roof, but for the call of the real estate appraiser.
Resolving to improve your finances for 2010? The National Foundation for Credit Counseling has these tips for the New Year: