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Detroit sets record for unemployment
michiganmessenger.com ^
| 8/28/09
| Ed Brayton
Posted on 08/31/2009 4:41:02 PM PDT by Kartographer
While the state of Michigan has the highest unemployment rate of any state in the nation, the city of Detroit leads the way for cities. For the month of July, the unemployment rate in Detroit stood at a staggering 28.9% — and that’s probably undercounted in the same way all unemployment figures are due to the way such rates are measured. Still, it’s the highest rate on record for Detroit.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: unemployment
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To: socialismislost
It is really sad that the Detroit unemployment rate is higher than the graduation rate.
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posted on
09/04/2009 6:50:51 AM PDT
by
CSM
(Business is too big too fail... Government is too big to succeed... I am too small to matter...)
To: cripplecreek
I’ve had personal dealings with Dave Bing. Without Ford he would be ridiculed as the idiotic business man he is. Ford bailed his arse out over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
They bailed him out so much, he should have a blue oval tattoed on his forehead!
He is a nice fellow tho’.
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posted on
09/04/2009 6:53:56 AM PDT
by
CSM
(Business is too big too fail... Government is too big to succeed... I am too small to matter...)
To: CSM
So he was wrong to fire 50 worthless bus drivers and Detroit should go back to a Kwameeocracy?
(The GOP isn’t going to win in detroit period)
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posted on
09/04/2009 6:57:26 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: cripplecreek
Not at all. I should have added that I think he is doing a fine job so far as the mayor of Detroit. I just get sick of hearing that he was some great businessman.
I agree that he is as good as it is going to get in that office.
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posted on
09/04/2009 7:04:19 AM PDT
by
CSM
(Business is too big too fail... Government is too big to succeed... I am too small to matter...)
To: kempster
And I love his name Robert Bob.
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posted on
09/04/2009 7:05:12 AM PDT
by
70th Division
(I love my country but fear my government!)
To: Kartographer
How’s that hopee changee thingy working out for Michigan?
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posted on
09/04/2009 7:06:04 AM PDT
by
Danae
(- Conservative does not equal Republican. Conservative does not compromise.)
To: socialismislost
What would be interesting to me is how exactly they count people who’ve lost unemployment but are looking for work. How does the government know someone is “looking” for work? Or have “given up looking” for work? My question exactly!
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posted on
09/04/2009 7:07:17 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: CSM
Yeah I don’t have any idea about his business sense but I’m glad detroit has taken a step in the right direction.
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posted on
09/04/2009 7:13:26 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: Kartographer
I listen to morning drive-time radio out of Detroit.
The police just cleared out a TENT CITY in Ann Arbor. Check it out on Google news.
Last time I heard of a tent city was during the great depression.
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posted on
09/04/2009 7:26:21 AM PDT
by
arfan
(Think Critically... Act Decisively... Reflect Constantly...)
To: arfan
It’s not a tent city, it’s an Obamaville
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posted on
09/04/2009 9:14:00 AM PDT
by
cyclotic
(Boy Scouts-Developing Leaders in a World of Followers.)
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