Michigan jobless rate hits 10.5%, highest since January, by Melissa Burden, July 21, 2011, Detroit News: “Michigan’s unemployment rate climbed for the second straight month to 10.5 percent in June, but economists see the increase as something temporarily tied to Japan’s March earthquake and not a cause for concern for the state’s economic recovery. June’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate rose two-tenths of a percentage point from May and is above the state’s low this year of 10.2 percent in April, according to the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget. That puts last month’s rate back almost where it stood in January, when it was 10.7 percent…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty