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The UAW strike against the Detroit Three sent workers to picket lines and forced layoffs by suppliers as the state’s jobless rate rose two-tenths of a percentage point.

Jobs numbers released Thursday show Michigan’s unemployment rate edged up ever so slightly in August to 3.7%.

Michigan’s jobless rate in May fell to 3.7% in May, the lowest it’s been in a couple of years.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Detroit’s unemployment rate for April was 4.2%, down from the 5.8% rate for March reported last month.

Detroit is investing millions of American Rescue Plan dollars into getting unemployed Detroiters back to work.

There's now an official list of people entitled to compensation after being falsely accused of unemployment fraud in Michigan.

Jobs gains ran just slightly ahead of job losses in August, which is consistent with the recent month-to-month trend of modest-but-steady improvement toward the recovery of the millions of jobs lost during the pandemic.

There are mixed signals in the new Michigan employment numbers that were released Wednesday.

The Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget says January’s unemployment rate declined by two-tenths of a percentage point to 4.9%

The latest U of M Detroit Metro Area Communities Study reached the 20% unemployment number through its regular survey of around 1,900 Detroiters. The rate found by the survey is about twice as high as Detroit’s official government unemployment rate.