Insider Intelligence

According to numbers released this week by the Department of Technology, Management and Budget, Michigan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for June 2016 was 4.6%, the lowest the rate has been since February 2001.  The rate is a decrease of one-tenth of a percentage point from the prior month, and seven-tenths of a percentage point below […]

According to numbers released this week by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management, and Budget, the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in May was 4.7%.  This rate is one-tenth of a percentage point below April’s rate and eight-tenths of a percentage point below the May 2015 rate.  Last month, both the labor force and the […]

According to numbers released this week by the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget, Michigan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April 2016 was 4.8%.  While the rate remains unchanged from the previous two months, it is eight-tenths of a percentage point below the April 2015 rate.  During the month of April 2016, total employment rose […]

According to numbers released this week by the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget, Michigan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for March 2016 was 4.8%.  Despite the rate remaining the same as the prior month, total employment grew by 27,000, while the number of unemployed decreased by 1,000.  Last month’s rate, was 1.0% lower than the […]

According to numbers released this week by the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget, Michigan’s seasonally adjusted February 2016 unemployment rate was 4.8%, a decrease of one-tenth of a percentage point.  Total employment in the state increased by 36,000 last month, while the number of unemployed decreased by 4,000.  The February 2016 rate is 1.1% […]

According to numbers released this week by the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget, January’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 4.9%.  In January, the workforce increased by 27,000, while the number of unemployed workers decreased by 6,000.  The rate is two-tenths lower than the December 2015 rate and 1.1% below the January 2015 rate.  […]

According to numbers released this week by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (DTMB), Michigan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for December 2015 was 5.1%.  While the rate didn’t change from the prior month, it is noticeably lower than the December 2014 rate of 6.4%.  The state’s labor force grew by 0.8% from December […]

According to numbers released this week by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management, and Budget, the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for November 2015 increased slightly to 5.1%, an increase of one-tenth of a percentage point.  The workforce rose by 21,000 during the month, while total employment rose by 15,000 and the number of unemployed […]