LANSING, MI (WTVB) – Michigan’s unemployment numbers improved enough in April to pull even with the national rate for the first time in 15-years, at 5.4%. But there’s still plenty of work to.
Michigan’s jobs picture looks very different than it did at the turn of the century. Since then, the state has lost over 800,000 jobs and only gained a little over half of them back. Many of those jobs pay less or are only part time.
The state’s workforce is smaller due to mass migration and the fact that many people have found it impossible to make the leap from the old economy to the new one and have just given up.
