Michigan's unemployment rate hits double digits

[blue_onyx]

"Michigan’s unemployment rate hit double digits in December for the first time since 1985.

The state’s December jobless rate rose from November’s rate of 9.6% to 10.6%, the state’s Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth said today."

more at link:

http://freep.com/article/20090121/NEWS06/90121089/Michi...


BTW, nationally, unemployment is at 7.2 percent. Thanks Bush...

[Romulox]

1. K/R I wish Labor was higher on everyone's agenda. nt

[blue_onyx]

2. As an unemployed person...me too

[Romulox]

3. I'm sorry to hear that. People are really hurting in our community.

Best wishes from Dearborn, Michigan.

[blue_onyx]

5. Thanks

It's been a while since I graduated from college and haven't been able to find anything. Luckily, I still live at home w/my parents so I'm not in a desperate situation right now. It's sad to see people who are in real trouble, losing their homes, cars, etc. I'm sure the real unemployment rate is actually closier to 20%.

[Urban Prairie]

4. Sigh...

My wife here in MI got her PT hours cut to 8 a week, can she be considered as 4/5ths unemployed?

The method used to compute unemployment by the BLS sucks anyway.

[AnneD]

6. I would double the published number

to get an accurate ideas. They half the real number to pacify the restless natives... to all our Michigander friends.

[blue_onyx]

7. I agree...It's at least 20% here

[MUAD_DIB]

8. I feel for you. I'm a contracter in MA, and my work has been slowng down.

[Romulox]

9. It's a shame people are ignoring this. Kick.

[blue_onyx]

12. Sometimes it's the silly posts that get the most attention

I think I just saw a post about Aretha Franklin's hat that had 50 or so replies.

[Urban Prairie]

10. I "fondly"remember those Reagan years in the 80s

My employer back then was Conrail. After they made their first profitable year in 1981 after combining the Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads, they then proceeded to begin to lay off hundreds of employees in the height of the recession, that worked in the Michigan Central Station. I was one of them. The hulking and abandoned 13 story tombstone that remains to this day is one of the more visible testaments to the deaths of many industries and businesses in the city of Detroit.

[damntexdem]

11. It was 25% nationally when FDR took over.

But the economy was much more isolated from the world economy then.