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.
In unsurprising news given the steady drumbeat of bad economic reports lately, the state’s unemployment rate took a big jump in July, up .4 percent to 10.9 percent. Total employment dropped by 30,000 jobs while the number of residents unemployed increased by 15,000.
A private jobs report from ADP last week estimated job growth in June far higher than the official numbers that were released on Friday by the Department of Labor.
A study conducted by The United States Conference of Mayors and The Council for the New American shows the jobs that have been lost in Metro Detroit in the decade long recession are unlikely to recover until 2020, reports Mlive.com.
In yet another sign of the weakening recovery, the American economy produced an anemic 54,000 jobs in May — not nearly enough to keep up with population growth — and the unemployment rate increased to 9.1 percent, according to the latest employment report from the Department of Labor.
Just when the weekly unemployment claims were starting to go back down after a 3 week spike, this week’s new claims jumped up to 424,000. That’s 10,000 more than last week. The four-week average now stands at 438,500.
The Department of Labor’s Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary for April is out and the news is decidedly mixed. Michigan’s unemployment rate dropped .1, from 10.3 percent to 10.2 percent — but it did so while the actual number of jobs in the state went down.
In what likely seems like a paradoxical result, the latest jobs report from the Department of Labor shows that the economy added 244,000 jobs in April but the unemployment rate still jumped from 8.8 percent to 9 percent.
In what can only be interpreted as bad news for a start-and-go economic recovery, weekly initial unemployment claims took another big jump last week, up to 429,000 from 404,000.
The latest Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that Michigan led the nation in having the steepest drop in unemployment over the last year.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the March jobs report this morning and the news was a bit better than expected, with 216,000 new jobs created during the month and a drop of .1 percent in the unemployment rate.
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