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...standard unemployment number excludes both those who have given up looking for a job and those who have taken part-time jobs but want full-time work. Include them and the number jumps to 20% or higher in states such as Michigan, California, Rhode Island and Oregon, with Tennessee, Nevada and other states in the high teens...
...with population growth. "The real employment hole is 9.1 million jobs," says Shierholz. "The stimulus bill is great, but it will only generate 3 to 4 million jobs. Now that we can see how dramatically things have deteriorated, we need to think about job creation in the places, like Michigan, that are extremely hard hit. There are areas across the nation that are going to be very depressed for a long time." (In comparison, at the height of the Great Depression, nearly 25% of the U.S. workforce - more than 11 million people - were unemployed.) (Read about the origins...
...Arbor Observer, a 33-year-old free monthly, hope to pick up some of the News's journalists and advertisers. Then there's the Ann Arbor Journal, a free weekly paper/website that started circulating to 20,000 homes three weeks before the News closed. Plus, the university has the Michigan Daily, which doesn't cover the town but keeps an eye on its biggest employer. All in all, there may eventually be more reporters covering Ann Arbor than before the newspaper was killed...
...Michigan TV: Even Worse Than We Thought Yet another reason to turn off the tube: the more TV time kids log, a study found, the higher their blood pressure is, regardless of weight--a spike not seen in connection with other sedentary behaviors like computer use. Researchers say the culprit may be showtime snacking, overstimulation and subsequent sleep loss, or exposure to junk-food commercials...
...Turning our state into a terrorist penal colony is not how to attract new families and business investment.' PETE HOEKSTRA, Republican Representative from Michigan, opposing President Obama's proposal to transfer Guantánamo Bay detainees to facilities in Michigan or Kansas or put them on trial in U.S. courts...