LANSING (AP) — Michigan’s unemployment rate rose by one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.7 percent in December while the size of the state’s workforce grew by 12,000 people.
Figures released last Thursday by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget show Michigan’s December’s employment rate was six-tenths of a percentage point above the national rate of 4.1 percent but four-tenths of a percentage point below the state’s December 2016 rate of 5.1 percent. The December 2017 jobless rate was the highest recorded in the state since April.
December also marked the fifth straight month that Michigan’s jobless rate increased.
Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives Director Jason Palmer says Michigan’s jobless rate fell for an eighth straight year while payroll jobs rose for a seventh consecutive year.
- Posted January 22, 2018
- Tweet This | Share on Facebook
Michigan unemployment rate up to 4.7 percent
headlines Oakland County
- Whitmer signs gun violence prevention legislation
- Department of Attorney General conducts statewide warrant sweep, arrests 9
- Adoptive families across Michigan recognized during Adoption Day and Month
- Reproductive Health Act signed into law
- Case study: Documentary highlights history of courts in the Eastern District
headlines National
- 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
- Federal judge who had in-chambers sex with top police officer issues clerks revised apology letters
- Criminal defense lawyer arrested, faces multiple charges after viral video of road rage confrontation
- Immigration lawyers continue to fight scammers
- Supreme Court spares Alabama man from nitrogen gas execution
- Lawyer convicted of orchestrating drug deals wins back law license
