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.
The new ADP National Employment Report, which measures only private, non-farm jobs and not government jobs, says that the economy produced 211,000 new private jobs in the past month.
The unemployment rate in Michigan dropped .3 percent, from 10.7 to 10.4 percent, in February, and the drop is not entirely illusory as so many recent drops have been. The state actually added 11,000 new jobs while reducing the unemployment rolls by 13,000.
Bill McBride of the Calculated Risk blog explains why the participation rate — the percentage of Americans either working or actively seeking a job — is crucial in determining how far and how fast the unemployment rate drops.
The February jobs report has been released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the news is genuinely good. The national unemployment rate dropped only .1, to 8.9 percent, but the decrease was actually brought on by new jobs being added.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s latest weekly unemployment report shows another sizable decrease in the number of new unemployment claims, down to 368,000.
Bill McBride, the economist behind the Calculated Risk blog, sums up the uninspiring data on job growth over the last few years and how the next few will likely play out:
One of the arguments we hear often from those who oppose extended unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless is the claim that such benefits keep people from taking available jobs and thus increase the unemployment rate. But their own studies show this effect to be negligible.
A bit of good economic news this week as the Department of Labor says new initial unemployment claims last week dropped by 36,000 from the week before, down to 383,000 claims.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the monthly jobs report for January this morning and, once again, what appears to be very good news on the surface is really bad news when you look at the details.
The latest Department of Labor weekly report on new unemployment claims contained a bit of good economic news as new claims declined by 37,000 to a total of 404,000.
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