Unemployment Falls Two-Tenths Of A Percent

(Lansing, MI)  --  Michigan's unemployment rate is down a little bit.  The state said the jobless rate in January was 14-point-three-percent, dropping two-tenths of a percent from December.  The Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth reported total employment was up by eleven-thousand while unemployment fell by seven-thousand.  January's jobless rate is higher by three-percent compared to a year ago. 

-Metro Source