unemployment

The state unemployment agency says the number of people waiting to have claims processed is growing. The agency says the backlog is largely due to…

Michigan’s unemployment rate remains high, but it’s getting better.The state’s May unemployment rate was 21.8%. That’s down 2.8 percentage points from the…

Legislators grilled the head of the Unemployment Insurance Agency about why some people still are not receiving benefits. Steve Gray, director of the…

Some Democratic state lawmakers and activists say now is the time to permanently extend and expand unemployment benefits in Michigan.Since the beginning…

Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced on Thursday that Michigan factories will soon be allowed to resume operations. This is good news for the thousands of…

Today on Stateside, we check in on Michigan’s farm scene and see how food producers are doing amid the pandemic. Plus, how the state unemployment office…

Starting Monday, Michiganders who are self-employed, gig workers, independent contractors and other low income workers who’ve lost work because of…

Applications for unemployment in Michigan took another huge jump last week. 384,844 people filed first-time claims. The U.S. Department of Labor’s newly…

Last week, Congress passed the CARES act, a $2 trillion stimulus package intended to provide relief to communities and workers impacted by the new…

Nearly 130,000 Michiganders filed claims for unemployment insurance last week, dwarfing the amount of claims in the state at the peak of the great…