LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 17, 2023) – Unemployment rose along the Lakeshore in the opening month of 2023.
That’s according to numbers released on Thursday by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget. Jobless rates not seasonally adjusted for Ottawa County in January was 3.5 percent, up six tenths of a percentage point from December, but just a tenth above the mark of January of 2022. Allegan County’s rate rose eight tenths of a percentage point, from 3.5 percent to 4.3 percent, but that was also just a tenth higher than a year ago.
While state officials say these month-by-month, across-the-board increases in unemployment was typical, Dr. Brian Long, Director of Supply Management Research at Grand Valley State’s Seidman College of Business, believes that “we’re still short about two percent of the workforce getting back to work” three years after the start of the COVID 19 outbreak.
Ottawa County was tied for third, while Allegan County stood eighth, among Michigan’s 83 counties for January in this latest monthly jobs report.
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