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Posted on Wed, Dec 16, 2009 : 2:31 p.m.

Michigan unemployment fell to 14.7 percent in November

By Paula Gardner

Michigan's jobless rate fell to 14.7 percent in November, dropping from 15.1 percent in October.

The rate, released this afternoon, "remains high but has stabilized, and has recorded two consecutive months of modest reductions” said Rick Waclawek, director of DELEG’s Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives, in a news release.

However, the number of payroll jobs in Michigan continues to fall, with drops in that number recorded in 9 months this year. Michigan’s work force has fallen by 54,000 or 1.1 percent since November 2008, according to the DELEG.

The unemployment rate was the lowest recorded in Michigan since May, according to state officials.

The state’s 2009 year-to-date average unemployment rate through November was 14.0 percent, compared to 8.4 percent in 2008.

Comments

Moose

Fri, Dec 18, 2009 : 10:27 a.m.

Fox News ruined it for every media outlet. By spouting massaged "facts" and creating them from smoke and mirrors every news outlet is suspect. Indeed, the conservative right disputes every fact that they don't agree with as "partisan", no matter where they hear or read or see it, and thus not true. I don't see any right wing conservatives questioning Drudge, Fox, Rush, Beck and the list is long, saying that their so called news or facts are partisan. I listed several links that state when the bank bailouts began and who was president and treasury secretary at the time. The dates and the people in charge cannot be disputed regardless of whether it's the BBC, NPR or the Washington Post. You can call them partisan if you want, but you cannot change the facts of who did what, when they did it and who was affected. Those are all indisputable facts attested to by the calendar and publicly recorded events. Regardless of who the messenger is, conservative of liberal, you cannot change the calendar and make Obama president before Jan 20 2009. After the bank bailout was begun You cannot change the facts that Bush was president and it was his idea to bail out the banks and insurance companies (AIG anyone?) You cannot change the facts that Bush was president on 9/11, nor can anyone change the facts that he had intel telling that Al Qaeda was planning to use planes as weapons in the weeks before 9/11 You cannot change the fact that Bush and Cheney made up their own "facts" to go to war in Iraq, and lied to the UN about yellow cake and used scare tactics like "mushroom cloud" when there was no evidence whatsoever that Saddam had nuclear or chemical weapons at the time. Indeed, the facts, by many sources including the AIEA and the CIA tell us that he did not. You cannot change those facts by dismissing the news source as partisan. Believe what you want, dismiss everyone and anything that states the facts as partisan, but you cannot change the people, the dates or their motives for taking us to 2 wars under false pretenses, turing the Clinton budget surplus into a the largest federal debt ever because of two wars and the bank giveaway/bailout. George W Bush, the worst president ever, and everyone knows it.

David Briegel

Fri, Dec 18, 2009 : 6:48 a.m.

Moose, you keep up the good posts. It drives the revisionists crazy to be confronted with the facts. I wrote a letter to the old A2News asking why Hank Paulsen would leave his chairmanship of the Billionaire Boys Club at Goldman to become Treas Secy. The answer was obvious to all but the lame that it was to preside over the looting of our Treasury! In that way Shrub not only exceeded his father but the conservatives all time hero, Ronnie Reagan! Not one or those Republicans ever submitted a balanced budget and it was on their watch the nation rang up that 12 trillion dollar Republican foolishness National Debt! It was a Republican Bridge to Nowhere and Perpetual War Profiteering that got us here. Less regulation indeed. The same people that caused our financial collapse are still in charge and we are foolishly expecting them to "fix things". HA!

FreedomLover

Fri, Dec 18, 2009 : 1:20 a.m.

Moose, is there anything else you want to blame soley on the Bush family? Again, as I said in an earlier post, congress is the only federal government body that can allocate money for wars or anything else. Let's spread the blame around all of our Washington polititians. Have another glass of koolaid!

Moose

Thu, Dec 17, 2009 : 9:22 p.m.

Only as partisan as other posters here. Me non partisan? I can't imagine anyone thinking otherwise. The Bush family operates on the premise that the sons must exceed their fathers achievements and that family, is placed above all other loyalties. Poppy Bush 41's father, Prescott Bush was a US Senator. GHWB didn't get Saddam in the 1st gulf War and Saddam plotted to kill W's father while W was president. Bush 1 only served one term and didn't get Saddam. On the other hand, the stupid son, GWB 43, (Jeb is considered the smart one) exceeded his fathers accomplishments by serving 2 (altho disastrous) terms and got Saddam. He made his mark above his father in the pantheon of Bush family history. If you're a Bush, that's all that counts.

tdw

Thu, Dec 17, 2009 : 5:22 p.m.

Moose could you explain the Daddy Bush comment.Bush sr obeyed the U.N mandate not to push into Iraq so he failed. Bush jr did not obey the U.N and went into Iraq so he's a war monger.Also if you really want to point the finger how about Carter?The auto industry really started going down the tubes on his watch.As far as your news examples they are not exactly non biased or bi-partisin

Moose

Thu, Dec 17, 2009 : 10:40 a.m.

Anyone who believes that it will take only 11 months to fix what Bush and his cronies did in 8 years is living on another planet. Were there a couple of wars going on 20 years ago? Was the USA in the depths of an economic depression and massive unemployment? There were a whole lot more job opportunities back then than there are today. And we weren't saddled with two costly wars. Many people choosing the military today do so because there aren't many good jobs or jobs that provide health care. Oh, for those who have convenient memory loss, Bush and Cheney got us into these costly, in lives and treasure, wars and squandered the international groundswell of goodwill that would have been useful in combatting global terrorism. 9/11 happened on Bush's watch and he had access to plenty of intel that told him so. He chose to ignore the facts and make up his own intel to suit his desire to revenge Daddy Bush by going after Saddam and then let Bin Laden get away. These wars that have cost a trillion dollars so far. Imagine how much less the federal deficit would be today had Bush not lead us down that road.

uawisok

Thu, Dec 17, 2009 : 10:36 a.m.

"Right to work state" what a joke that concempt is it should be called "right to extort low wages from those who beg and grovel to their slave masters" 1990-2000 State of michigan gained 750,000 jobs, 2000-2010 we have lost 900,000 jobs...HMMM look who was President during these time periods and draw your own conclusions.

Moose

Thu, Dec 17, 2009 : 9:42 a.m.

How soon the history revisionists forget. Beginning in September 2008, Bush and his Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson began the bailouts while HE was in office, not Obama. It was his last sloppy wet kiss to his biggest financial supporters http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/business/Bush-Bank-Bailout-Overpaid-by-Billions-Study.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95679876 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4942192.ece

walker101

Thu, Dec 17, 2009 : 9:20 a.m.

Misleading, the rate is closer to 20%, they don't account for the people who have stopped receiving unemployment benefits. Many have run out and are still not working and basically given up, others have taken part-time employment. It will get worse before it gets better, the stimulus package, tart money have completely failed. The HealthCare package is no better and wait till they come up with the Value National Tax which is directed for the low income people. The CHANGE has come.

Awakened

Thu, Dec 17, 2009 : 8:40 a.m.

It does not say that it is seasonally adjusted so this may just be temporary holiday jobs. Let's see what happens in February.

FreedomLover

Thu, Dec 17, 2009 : 12:34 a.m.

Moose, The president doesn't give tax money to anyone without the approval of congress. The last time I checked the Democrats have been in control in congress for several years. Neither Bush nor Obama have the power to spend money. I was 20 years military and it wasn't because I had no other options. I chose to serve my country, did you? Or would you rather just complain about it like our current president does?

tdw

Wed, Dec 16, 2009 : 10:18 p.m.

Moose not sure what planet you're from but Michigan has been loseing jobs for the past 25yrs.And as far as giving banks money you're thinking of the wrong president

Moose

Wed, Dec 16, 2009 : 9:32 p.m.

Yeah, Bush made a lot of jobs. For Blackwater and the Carlyle Group. Oh, and military jobs for those people without any other options because there weren't many working class jobs created on his watch while he and Cheney drive the economy into the ground and gave a trillion dollars to the banks just before he left office resulting in huge federal deficits.

InsideTheHall

Wed, Dec 16, 2009 : 8:41 p.m.

The only reason the rate fell is because of people who have exhausted their benefits and are no longer counted as unemployed AND those who now are taking Social Security and lose the definition of unemployed. Let's face it. Obama has failed miserably at creating sustainable jobs.

CynicA2

Wed, Dec 16, 2009 : 3:55 p.m.

Well... since they've laid-off just about everyone who conceivably could be laid-off, and most of those folks have long since backed their bags and gone elsewhere in the country, it must be that the already unemployed are leaving the state faster than new folks are being laid-off. Not many new jobs are being created, that's for sure.

Captain Magnificent

Wed, Dec 16, 2009 : 3:21 p.m.

I agree with Bone Roller- this is a positive sign for Michigan! Finally, some good news on the jobs front!

bone roller

Wed, Dec 16, 2009 : 3:06 p.m.

what's that mean like 4 people got jobs. things are really turning in michigan