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      <title>Michigan’s unemployment rate remains at 3.9% in April</title>
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      <description>Michigan’s jobless rate remained stable in April at 3.9%, according to figures released Thursday by the Michigan Center for Data and Analytics.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 15:23:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Michigan jobless rate remained stable in January</title>
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      <description>Michigan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped very slightly during January to 4%, according to numbers released Thursday by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:55:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Michigan unemployment rate up slightly as more jobseekers out looking</title>
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      <description>Jobs numbers released Thursday show Michigan’s unemployment rate edged up ever so slightly in August to 3.7%.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 23:04:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Detroit's unemployment rates are at a lowest level in three decades</title>
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      <description>Detroit officials say the city’s un-employment rate has fallen to the lowest level in three decades.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 21:00:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Quinn Klinefelter</dc:creator>
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      <title>Thousands of people in Michigan face losing federal unemployment benefits this week.</title>
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      <description>Thousands of people in Michigan face losing federal unemployment benefits this week. Unemployment payments tied to the pandemic expire for millions of other people nationwide in the coming days.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:12:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Quinn Klinefelter</dc:creator>
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      <title>State offering webinars for Work Share program</title>
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      <description>The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity has been offering the Work Share program in order to help businesses and employees ease back…</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:38:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Federal legislation would expand pandemic unemployment benefits beyond July</title>
      <link>https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2020-05-05/federal-legislation-would-expand-pandemic-unemployment-benefits-beyond-july</link>
      <description>Congressman Dan Kildee has announced efforts to expand pandemic unemployment insurance and include benefits for students.Pandemic unemployment insurance,…</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2020 19:49:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MI June jobless rate unchanged to 4.2 percent</title>
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      <description>Michigan’s official monthly jobless rate was unchanged in June at four-point-two percent. The numbers come from the Michigan Department of Technology,…</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:56:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Unemployment rates plummet</title>
      <link>https://www.wcmu.org/economy/2019-06-07/unemployment-rates-plummet</link>
      <description>A recent report from the state unemployment rates are down across Michigan.Unemployment rates are falling in all regions of the state, according to the…</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 21:35:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Bronte Cook</dc:creator>
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      <title>Michigan offers little to unemployed residents, compared to other states</title>
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      <description>Michigan falls short in providing a safety net for unemployed workers, according to a new report.Researchers with the Michigan League for Public Policy…</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:11:31 GMT</pubDate>
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