The jobless rates for Northern rural Michigan saw improvement in most counties in May. In fact 38 counties saw their rates fall, seven increased and one remained the same. The data this month has a couple of additional looks. The first is how a county performed with respect to its median income over the past decade. The percentage change is in parenthesis. Also the change in poverty and children in poverty are also noted as the percent change over the past decade. Before one can draw too many conclusions over a dramatic improvement in poverty county poverty here is a caution. One would need to look at demographic make up to discern the percentage of people receiving Social Security, and also the percentage of Government Employees which is some counties is quite high. A third piece of data that would need to be reviewed is out-migration of families and workers to low unemployment States. A serious conclusion about why or how poverty rates improved would need an evaluation of those pieces. So with those caveats the data is below.
MS Word Document of Summary: May Northern MIchigan Rural Jobless Summary – June 14, 2012
Source: Northern Initiatives Press Release.
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