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With no hearings or public input, Republicans rushed through House Bill 4397 today, providing a giveaway to insurance companies in the form of loopholes to avoid guaranteed lower rates or an end to discriminatory rate setting practices. Michigan’s auto insurance industry is one of the least regulated in the U.S. with Michigan drivers paying nearly two times more than drivers anywhere else in the nation, according to a University of Michigan study.

House and Senate Democrats held a press conference today to call for the repeal of a 2018 law that gutted a minimum wage increase for low-wage workers. The Democrats’ plan to Repeal the Steal would reinstate the minimum wage increase in the original One Fair Wage ballot initiative, as supported by the nearly 400,000 Michiganders who signed on to proposal. The initiative was passed by the legislative majority in September of last year, which kept the proposal off the November ballot, before the law was gutted by the Republican-led Legislature during lame duck.