Using My Glass Half Full Goggles On Michigan’s High Unemployment

I’ll end my blogging for the week on a rather sober note if you too live in Michigan. A new government report found that fifteen states had double digit unemployment in February, Michigan having the highest of them all:

Michigan’s unemployment rate was 14.1 percent in February, and in the Detroit-Warren-Livonia area the rate was 14.8 percent. After Michigan, the states with the next highest rates were Nevada (13.2 percent) and Rhode Island (12.7 percent).

Still though, I have a feeling Michigan could be better off than some of the other states that it’s ahead. The fall of the auto industry was a huge fall for the state but, unlike Nevada or Rhode Island, it had an auto industry to begin with. I think the news would be much more depressing if there was not a singular collapse that we have to thank for the high unemployment.

–Daniel Strauss