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Michigan Still Has Highest Unemployment, But ... — New figures show Michigan's unemployment rate has decreased.
Bad Hangovers, Bad Memories, Bad Taxes — Lawmakers recklessly imbibe in end-of-year work, and taxpayers will be left' [...]
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Michigan Still Has Highest Unemployment, But ... — New figures show Michigan's unemployment rate has decreased.
Bad Hangovers, Bad Memories, Bad Taxes — Lawmakers recklessly imbibe in end-of-year work, and taxpayers will be left' [...]
The U.S. Senate passed a defense appropriations bill on Sunday morning that includes an extension of unemployment benefits and other provision that will help many in Michigan during these tough economic times. The House had voted for the same bill earlier last week.
The bill includes an extension [...]
As the state unemployment rate continues to be in the double digits… Michigan Radio’s political analyst Jack Lessenberry thinks dealing with job loss may require us to turn to an almost forbidden word…
Today I want to say something shocking, so [...] The U.S. House of Representatives passed a large defense spending bill that included an amendment that would extend federal unemployment insurance benefits even beyond the bill passed a few weeks ago and contains other provisions that may help in this bad economy. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The $636-billion [...]
Here’s another glimmer of hope for the economy: Michigan’s unemployment rate fell nearly another half a percent in November. Total employment increased by 16,000 and the jobless rate dropped from 15.1 percent in October to 14.7 percent in November. Unfortunately, that’s still high enough to lead the nation — [...]
The Detroit News’ Mike Wilkinson has an eye-opening story on how unemployment rates generally under-report true joblessness — and specifically how this is happening in Michigan’s largest city.
The story points out that Detroit’s official unemployment rate of 27 percent (as of October) may be dramatically under-counting those without work [...]
By Ben ArmbrusterToday President Obama will meet with the nation’s top bank executives in the President’s “latest push for lenders to take greater responsibility as the nation combats an economic crisis that began on Wall Street.” “The president is looking forward…[to discussing] the [...]
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) (WDCpix)
WASHINGTON — For millions of unemployed workers, the recession is poised to go from bad to worse.More than 3.2 million laid-off Americans, including 183,000 Michigan residents, will prematurely exhaust their unemployment insurance in the first quarter of next year [...]
The non-stimulus stimulus boondoggle was signed into law in February. Obama promised that if porkulus were passed, that the unemployment rate would peak at no more than 8%. How did that work out? Not so good:
Yes, you read that headline correctly.
The same day the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announces that the Detroit metro area continues to lead the nation in ugly unemployment figures, Delta Airlines announces that direct flights to Honolulu are set to begin this summer.
Let [...]
Chris Christoff of the Detroit Free Press has an entirely unsurprising article about how state offices that handle unemployment, food stamps and Medicaid are being overrun with new clients as Michigan continues to lead the nation in unemployment and the Department of Human services has been cut to the [...]
