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As consumers, we are a fickle bunch. Job prospects, high gasoline prices, rising interest rates, war in Ukraine, COVID-19 and politics are just some the headwinds faced by the largest share of the American economy — consumption.

Accel Entertainment Inc (NYSE:ACEL) has appointed Mathew Ellis as its Chief Financial Officer, effective May 1, 2022. Ellis succeeds Brian Carroll, who in 2021 had notified his intention to retire. Carroll will remain with Accel in an advisory capacity until the end of 2023. Ellis previously served as the company's Senior Vice President…

A Grand Rapids, Michigah, police officer's decision to stop a car Patrick Lyoya was driving because of a license plate issue was legal, criminal justice experts said, but they and legal analysts were divided about whether the officer could be criminally charged in Lyoya's fatal shooting.

CHICAGO — On the March morning she officially became the chair of the board of directors of the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation, Martha Minow sat on a couch in the handsomely appointed apartment of her father and remembered the past.

DETROIT — Shelia Bernard remembers the way asthma made her daughter wheeze, how a cold would turn so bad she'd have to take her to the hospital for breathing treatments.

The city is to open more than 40,000 accounts to help kids save for college after programs elsewhere have shown promise

President Joe Biden is turning his focus to kitchen-table issues as he struggles to get credit for a recovering economy in the lead-up to the midterm elections

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Former President Donald Trump tried to boost select Michigan candidates running for secretary of state, attorney general and the Legislature Saturday in a nearly two-hour address that aimed to cement his influence in the Michigan GOP.

Jowei Chen, a political science professor at the University of Michigan, had a computer draw 1,000 versions of Kansas congressional maps, using non-partisan and traditional guidelines.