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TexasTowelie

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Fri Mar 10, 2017, 07:26 AM Mar 2017

State of Michigan employees' salaries would be public under House bill

Last edited Mon Mar 13, 2017, 06:26 AM - Edit history (1)

LANSING — Both the merely curious and the serious fact-finder may soon be able to find out what most state employees are paid with a click of a computer mouse.

A House committee is expected to vote next week on a bill that will make individual state employee salaries easily and publicly accessible to anyone.

Supporters of the bill say it’s a boon for transparency in state government.

“This is giving citizens an opportunity to identify where their tax dollars are going,” Rep. Brandt Iden, R-Oshtemo Township, who is the sponsor of the bill, said during a hearing Thursday of the House Oversight Committee. “People want more access to what we do here in Lansing.”

Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/09/state-employees-salaries-public/98946912/

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State of Michigan employees' salaries would be public under House bill (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2017 OP
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