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Chad Halcom

Articles

Putting a price on fixing Flint, and cities like it

January 24, 2016 Chad Halcom, Lindsay VanHulle in

Business Bridge

More than $100 million in state and federal money already headed toward Flint will help with immediate needs. But replacing aging, lead-based water pipes in Flint and other older cities will take time, and a whole lot more money.

1-in-10 Michigan workers now collecting disability

August 6, 2015 Chad Halcom in

Business Bridge

Disability rolls surge past 500,000 workers, who are unlikely to return to the workforce. Critics claim Michigan’s system is too soft.

Expanding benefit rolls drains federal trust fund reserves

August 6, 2015 Chad Halcom in

Business Bridge

At current rates, money marked for workers with long-term disabilities will be exhausted by the 2016.