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Lower income and fewer jobs with the same unemployment rate

  • April 2, 2015
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog
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Michigan's February unemployment rate of 5.9 percent is the lowest it has been in more than a dozen years. Since it was also 5.9 percent in October, 2001. Good news indeed! Unfortunately there the similarity in good economic news ends.…

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The safety net and employment

  • January 23, 2014
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog
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Conventional wisdom seems to be that a generous safety net reduces the number of people that work. The thinking goes if you pay people enough not to work, they won't seek and find work. Acting on those beliefs, Michigan, particularly…

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