Here’s some good economic news for a change. Michigan’s jobless rate dropped a full .4 percent in May, dropping to 13.6 percent. That’s still high enough to lead the nation, but it’s double the national drop of .2 percent and the first significant decline in unemployment in the state in a very long time.

The rate in May 2009 was also 13.6 percent, but the trend was then clearly on the way up. Now the trend is in the opposite direction.