Posted on 10/24/2009 6:30:01 PM PDT by Son House
The September unemployment stats for Michigan came out this week and they are high — as expected.
Mlive.com highlighted the statistics on a municipal level, showing the five cities with the highest jobless rates are all over 25 percent. The cities of Highland Park and Pontiac, which leaned heavily on auto-related employment, had the highest unemployment with 35.2 percent of residents reportedly jobless. Both cities have declared bankruptcy in the recent past. Highland Park recently emerged from state receivership and Pontiac just slipped under state control last year.
While the overall state’s unemployment rate is the highest in the nation at 15.3 percent, the top five hardest hit cities in the state are all former automobile production hubs.
According to Mlive.com:
1.Highland Park 35.2% 1. Pontiac 35.2% 3. Detroit 27.9% 4. Flint 26.3% 5. Port Huron 25.7%
What do these statistics mean for residents in these cities? Many are packing up and heading out of state to find work, like one Detroiter who went as far as creating a website and a PayPal account seeking donations to help him leave the city.
The former Detroiter wrote on his “Help me leave Detroit” page, which features photos of crime and drug houses in his neighborhood:
“I live in Detroit. I am a skilled pipefitter, yet I am unemployed. Detroit’s unemployment rate is at a record 28.7 percent. 1/3 of Detroiters live at or below the poverty line. Crime is rampant. My house has been burglarized 9 times. My car window was bust by a thief who I caught breaking into the house down the street.
The blogging plumber is not alone. In April the Detroit News reported that every 12 minutes Michigan loses a family seeking work. The article noted that approximately 109,000 more people left Michigan in 2008 than moved in.
This state exodus is not helping the situation any. Detroit News’ Ron French writes:
“The families who are leaving — young, well-educated high-income earners — are the people the state desperately needs to rebuild.
1.Highland Park 35.2% 1. Pontiac 35.2% 3. Detroit 27.9% 4. Flint 26.3% 5. Port Huron 25.7%
^ I know a guy who moved out of Detroit because of getting robbed in his own Neighborhood, Democrats have no idea what they are doing with their Stimulus bill, Lord have Mercy on us all!
Oh, I was watching COPS tonight, and just thought what was the unemployment rates doing to the crime rates, I now get the feeling we may never get to the bottom of it. Cops here are swamped with over 2000 arrest warrants alone, and that's before they get any 911 calls
The Jews are leaving MI?
Watch for emigrants to bring their high taxes and excessive regulations to a city near you. :D
Tell old Granholm, “b*****, let my people go!”
And yet, Grosse Point. MI is completely uneffected by the FAILING Michigan economy.
How DO the rich do it? ;)
destroyed by the progressives.
if our enemies had done this,
the u.s. would rise up.
but relax folks, it’s the democrat-rino plantation.
This is our generation’s version of “The Grapes of Wrath.” But while Oklahoma eventually recovered, Michigan’s cities are headed to permanent 3rd world status. The productive people are leaving the parasites behind.
Just go out and shake your mail boxes. Gov. Granholm thinks it’s important.
Smart comments aside, Michigan is a beautiful state with great people. Politicians and unions can ruin anything.
A Dem state run by Dem thugs.
Hows that Hope & Change working out for you?
Wait I thought the recession was over.
Detroit population 1950 = 1,849,568
Detroit Population 2000 = 951,270
http://www.somacon.com/p469.php
And in the next election, the people of Michigan will once again invest their dreams and money in the Democrat Party. If these people remain this stupid, why should I give a damn. They chose the bed. Let them lie in it!
As Rush so often says who runs the state? Who runs the city of Detroit and probably many of the other cities that are bankrupt? Socialism/unionism “still” does not work.
In the 1950’s and 1960’s, Detroit was anything but what it is now. I used to take a bus to visit my aunts and uncles who lived there at the time. I took a bus with cousins into downtown Detroit to shop with them. We went to movies and had a blast in the clean and wholesome suburbs. Those were the days of Bob Segur, Mitch Ryder and Diana Ross and the Supremes. What a hellhole that place has turned into.
“...every 12 minutes Michigan loses a family seeking work.
The article noted that approximately 109,000 more
people left Michigan in 2008 than moved in...”
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I wonder if the 2010 census will result
in Michigan losing some House seats...
I’ve had reason to visit the Wolverine State over the years, and if there are any Jews there, I’ve yet to meet one.
Yes. Detroit has fewer people than the Bronx.
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