LANSING (AP) — The state says Michigan’s seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate rose a full percentage point to 6.6 percent in January, largely because of normal annual changes in the job market.
The Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget released regional employment figures last Thursday. January’s jobless rate is down 1.8 percentage points from 8.4 percent one year earlier.
The department says January’s regional unemployment rates ranged from a low of 3.9 percent in the Ann Arbor area to a high of 11 percent in the northeastern Lower Peninsula.
It says the jobless rate in populous metropolitan Detroit rose 0.9 points in January to 7.4 percent.
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Report: http://1.usa.gov/1C172sg.
Department: http://www.michigan.gov/dtmb.
- Posted March 23, 2015
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