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Finlandia’s business faculty feature strong local connections

HANCOCK — Finlandia University’s International School of Business (ISB) lives up to its name by maintaining strong international partnerships, teaching students from a variety of countries, and overseeing internships and a range of business activities with an international flavor. However, our faculty also have strong connections to our local area. Five of the six full-time faculty are graduates of local high schools including Calumet, Houghton, Jeffers, and Ontonagon. Additionally, three of our faculty members have extensive work experience from living in other parts of the country ...

Gov. Whitmer secures grants to empower women

LANSING - Governor Whitmer today announced that the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau awarded the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) $350,000 in a Fostering Access Rights and Equity (FARE) grant to help women workers understand and exercise their rights and benefits in the workplace. “Women have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is crucial that we step up to empower women at the workplace,” said Governor Whitmer. “I am grateful to Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and the Biden Administration for their work in ...

UIA begins search process to upgrade operating system

LANSING — The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency will issue a Request for Information through the Department of Technology, Management and Budget as the agency looks at options to replace its unemployment benefits and employer tax system that has been in use since 2012. The RFI is intended to get an understanding of the products that are available in the market for a system capable of handling the complexity of the unemployment insurance program, and is robust, secure and protects sensitive claimant and employer information. It will ultimately help create the necessary ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announces Michigan Strategic Fund projects supporting hundreds of jobs and water infrastructure

LANSING – Governor Gretchen Whitmer joined the Michigan Economic Development Corporation today in announcing Michigan Strategic Fund approval of projects that include crucial support for Ford’s continued investment in electric vehicles in Michigan, a biopharmaceutical facility in Ann Arbor creating 160 jobs, and $14.9 million in grants to 11 communities around the state to support infrastructure improvements. “We are focused on growing Michigan’s economy by creating good jobs for our residents, building on our state’s automotive manufacturing strengths, supporting vibrant ...

New protections in place for vulnerable adults as Financial Exploitation Prevention Act goes into effect

LANSING — Vulnerable adults in Michigan have new protections in place after the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act took effect on Sept. 26. The statute enacts new requirements on financial institutions to ensure they have training and procedures in-place to better recognize the signs of financial exploitation and take action to protect those who are unable to protect themselves from abuse, neglect, or exploitation because of a mental or physical impairment or because of advanced age. The Act is the result of collaborative work led by the Department of Attorney General's Elder ...

Attorney General Nessel provides update on fight against robocalls

LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who has made fighting robocalls a top priority, released an update on telecom companies’ progress in implementing the Anti-Robocall Principles she signed onto in 2019. Since September 2019, companies that agreed to these principles have identified more than 52 billion spam or spoofed numbers calls, authenticated the caller ID numbers of hundreds of billions of calls, and blocked more than 32.5 billion spam, spoofed, or illegal calls. There is more work to do, however. Already this year, 391,453 Americans have filed reports with the ...