Mich. Unemployment Drops To 14.6%

[BeatleBoot]

Source: WDIV (NBC Afilliate in Detroit)

State Sees 3rd Straight Month Of Improvement

LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan's unemployment rate has improved for the third straight month.

State officials said Wednesday that the December jobless rate dropped to 14.6 percent, down from a national high of 14.7 percent in November.

State officials said that modest recalls of laid off auto workers and a slower pace of job loss in the service sector helped to stabilize Michigan's jobless rate in the second half of 2009.

The state's jobless rate reached 15.3 percent in September.











Read more: http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/22284462/detail.html

[BeatleBoot]

1. An Unrec?

Because good news hurts?

Freepers lurking.

No Democrat would unrec that post.

[mrcheerful]

2. Gee does that mean all those welfare queens can now get off the rolls and

got to work like the rest of us true american working men? :sarcasm: Funny how since 1979 thats all I hear from Michiganders, welfare is the reason why jobs were out sourced, people to lazy to work for $5 an hour. Funny how the ones yelling it the loudest were the ones who refused to take a pay cut so their employers could hire more workers. Nit Wits

[clear eye]

5. Oh yeah, turn on the unions. That'll help the jobs situation. n/t

[Moosepoop]

9. You've been talking to the wrong Michiganders

There are many of us who don't feel that way. I'd be willing to bet that most of us don't.

[Smashcut]

11. Here in CA Meg Whitman is running ads about getting people off welfare and "looking for work"

i.e., jobless AND hungry. No mention of the unemployment rate...

Amazing how little has changed w/ these assholes.

[DesertDiamond]

12. ??? Did she just wake up from a very long nap??

[Smashcut]

14. Apparently she's been napping since Reagan

And hopefully she'll have plenty of time to rest after we send her packing. :kick:

[bluestateguy]

3. Looooooong ways to go

Kind of like a baseball team that is down 15 runs and scores another run to make it a 14 run deficit.

[BeatleBoot]

4. Yeah, but look behind us.

We were on the precipice of a global economic disaster.

It's still going to be a while, I agree.

But we're moving forward.

[auburnblu]

8. Good analogy

When I read the %, I was like, well I guess that is kind of sorta of well maybe not really good news.

[Mendocino]

6. Good for them.

Must of opened another casino.;)

[Flaneur]

7. Well, it's a small step in the right direction.

Somebody up there's got a job who didn't have one last month.

[LittleGirl]

10. but how many of those dropped off the count?

You know...because their benefits ran out?

[caraher]

16. that's what I worry

Unemployment rates are not easy to interpret because they do drop "discouraged workers" from the tally. I think the only sensible wayto read a change from 14.7% to 14.6% is that the official unemployment rate was basically unchanged.

Now that could actually be good news... it's like the whole "did the stimulus work?" debate. The stimulus probably did "work" in the very important sense that things would be MUCH worse without it. (It was probably too small, of course...) So a stabilizing unemployment rate is not necessarily a bad thing, as much as we all want to see a decreasing unemployment rate.

[New Dawn]

20. Bingo. And how many of the "new jobs" are actually just part-time minimum wage jobs...

That was the problem even back when the economy was "good" -- the new jobs were mostly low-paying, part-time stuff.

[Demeter]

22. Or Moved Out of the State

Or simply died. Things are not getting better here in Michigan, we are in our 9th year of Depression.

[pinqy]

25. None...

It doesn't matter for the unmployment rate whether or not you've ever received or ever been eligible for UI benefits. If you didn't work and are looking for work, you're unemployed.

[scheming daemons]

13. It's amazing the amount of people that will cynically piss on any good news

Can't have anything good happen... what would happen to their angst?


Of course there is always much further to go... .but in 3 months it went from 15.3 to 14.6. Why on earth would anybody unrec that?

[Hannah Bell]

24. More piss: "Census figures show Michigan’s population loss continues" -Thus the lower unemployment

"Census figures show Michigan’s population loss continues"
POSTED: 11:49 a.m., Dec. 23, 2009

Michigan has lost population for the fourth consecutive year, according to the latest estimate released by the U.S. Census, with the state’s total population falling below 10 million.

It’s the first time since 2001 that the state’s population has fallen below 10 million, but the state’s total population of 9,969,727 is just above its 2000 census total, said Kurt Metzger, director of the Detroit-Area Community Information System.

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20091223/FREE/9122...

[knitter4democracy]

15. Hey, I finally got a job, so it must be true.

Well, two part-time teaching jobs we're putting into one full-time job (no benefits, long-term sub pay), but still, they count!

It's still really bad around here, too.

[blue_onyx]

17. Good news

I hope we start to see some larger decreases because 14.6% is still very high.

[barb162]

18. Does that mean people left the State? n/t

[AzNick]

19. Was wondering the same nt

[fujiyama]

21. I think things are a little better

I've heard of even some idiot workers getting jobs back since getting laid off about a year ago (trust me if you knew this guy you wouldn't buy a Chrysler either).

[Hannah Bell]

23. The reason? "Census figures show Michigan’s population loss continues"

POSTED: 11:49 a.m., Dec. 23, 2009

Michigan has lost population for the fourth consecutive year, according to the latest estimate released by the U.S. Census, with the state’s total population falling below 10 million.

It’s the first time since 2001 that the state’s population has fallen below 10 million, but the state’s total population of 9,969,727 is just above its 2000 census total, said Kurt Metzger, director of the Detroit-Area Community Information System.

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20091223/FREE/912239994#

[jpak]

26. More evidence that so-called progressives must stay at home or vote teabagger

to make sure that unemployment goes UP so they can celebrate the Bad Obama's failure!!!1111

unreccing!