From Staff Reports
State officials say unemployment in Michigan continued a downward trend in February.
It dropped two-tenths of a percentage point during the month, to a seasonally adjusted 8.8 percent. For a second month...
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Michigan's December unemployment rate was 9.3 percent - the lowest it's been in three-and-a-half years. That helped bring the state's annual unemployment average down as well, to...
By Laura Weber
Poverty and homelessness rates have been on the rise over the past several years in Michigan. That's according to an annual report on poverty from the Michigan...
Michigan's unemployment rate has dropped a third consecutive month and now stands at nine-point-eight percent. That's the lowest the rate has been in more than three years. But...
UPDATE: Lawmakers have passed the unemployment benefits measure. It also approved the bond issue mentioned toward the end of the story.
State lawmakers are voting...
Michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the Midwest. But unemployed workers have a harder time getting jobless benefits in Michigan than in other states in the region,...
Michigan's monthly unemployment rate has dipped by half a percentage point to 10.6 percent. The rate dropped primarily because so many people quit looking for jobs and dropped out...
From Staff Reports
The state's unemployment rate stayed largely unchanged in September.
At 11.1 percent, it's two full percentage points higher than the national rate of 9.1 percent and just a tenth of a percentage point...
Northwest Lower Michigan lost nearly 9,000 manufacturing jobs during the last decade, according to a new report from the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments....
The Michigan Legislature reconvenes this week after a two month of summer recess. A couple controversial issues await lawmakers when they return.
Republican House Speaker...
