I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
State by state jobless numbers released by the U.S. Dept. of Labor show that for the first time in four years Michigan is not the state with the highest level of unemployment.
The Detroit News reports that Nevada now leads the nation with 14 percent unemployment while Michigan’s rate has dropped from 14 percent in April to 13.6 percent last month.
The drop in Michigan’s rate was its largest in 27 years. Bill Anderson, chief economist with Nevada’s employment agency, said at this time of year, college graduates should be entering the labor force and construction activity should be rising.
“What’s happening this time around is we’re seeing the economy continue to struggle — it’s not picking up as much as it should,” Anderson said. ”
Nevada has been hammered by the collapse in housing and a downturn in tourism.
The national unemployment rate for May was 9.7 percent.
The improvement in Michigan’s stats may not be evidence of economic improvement.
The News notes that in many cases states’ unemployment rates declined because people gave up looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed.
In Michigan, as in the rest of the nation, most of the new jobs are temporary government jobs associated with the 2010 census.
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