LANSING - Seasonally unadjusted unemployment rates in May edged up in 12 of Michigan’s 17 regional labor markets, according to data from the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget. Both total employment and total workforce levels rose in most labor market areas over the month. “Most metro areas in Michigan recorded modest jobless rate
DETROIT - THE U.S. unemployment rate in November dropped to its lowest level since August 2007, before the great recession began, to 4.6 percent, putting it within putting distance of the low for the previous cycle of 4.4., Comerica Bank reported. But expectations for the official payroll job numbers for November were boosted by a
DETROIT - The second quarter of 2016 set a new high in employment in Southeast Michigan dating back nearly a decade to 2007 to the beginning of the recession, reports the Workforce Intelligence Network for Southeast Michigan, a 16-county partnership region. With employment expanding by 1.4 percent, some 35,000 jobs were added from April through
