LANSING - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a bill into law that is expected to clear the way for part-time workers to keep unemployment aid they received during the pandemic. The eligibility of part-time workers for unemployment and their ability to keep it after the fact was in question following confusion over whether claimants should
DETROIT - More than a year into the pandemic, the country is doing its best to get back on its feet, and the local government is trying to encourage a return to normal. Indeed, as early as July, COVID-era relief programs have begun to expire in Michigan and other states. Such programs include, among others,
LANSING - The state unemployment rate in July improved to 8.7% from the previous month's 14.8%, the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) reported Wednesday. The U.S. jobless rate moved down by nine-tenths of a percentage point between June and July to 10.2%, meaning Michigan’s July rate was 1.5 percentage points below the
MUNCIE, Indiana – Extreme social distancing occurring in the United States is more than sufficient to create a recession as mass layoffs cause unemployment to exceed 10.5 percent nationally, says a new report from Ball State University. Within 90 days, the economic downturn caused by governmental efforts to mitigate the novel coronavirus will cause unemployment
LANSING - Thirteen of the state's 17 labor market areas saw declines in seasonally unadjusted unemployment rates in November while total employment and labor force levels also increased in most regions. "November unemployment rates declined slightly in the state's southern areas, and rose seasonally in the northern regions," Jason Palmer, director of the Bureau of
LANSING - Seasonally unadjusted unemployment rates fell in 16 of the state's 17 major labor market areas in October. "October changes in the state's various local labor markets were typically small and seasonal," said Jason Palmer, director of the Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives. "Michigan's metropolitan area payroll job levels continued to
ANN ARBOR—In Donald Trump's first three quarters as president the U.S. economy has averaged a solid 2.4 percent growth rate, still well short of the 4 percent he promised as a candidate and under the 3 percent his first federal budget proposal assumed. University of Michigan economists are projecting that overall economic output growth, as
LANSING - All but one of Michigan’s labor markets saw unemployment fall in August, but 16 of the 17 also saw their workforce decline, the Department of Technology, Management and Budget said in a report Thursday. The majority of the markets also saw higher unemployment rates last month than they did in August 2016, the
LANSING - The Michigan and U.S. economies should continue growing over the next two years, but that growth will be slower as the economy tries to deal with near full-employment situation and demographic changes as more Baby Boomers retire and more millennials go into the jobs market, economists said Wednesday at the May Revenue Estimating
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
