Michigan at the bottom of the barrel in jobs, economy

by Justin Renigar

In the last few years, the entire country’s economy has been plummeting. People are losing their jobs all over, in all occupations. The stock market is down and people are losing a lot of their money. Good, honest, hard working people are falling into poverty and have done nothing wrong.

The national unemployment rate in the U.S. is 8.5%. That means that there are about 26,028,307 people in this country that don’t have a job. After years of the economy getting worse, we’re almost at the bottom. People argue whether or not our country will fall into another depression. According to The Economist, it will be about ten more years before the country’s economy turns itself around.

As of right now, Michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 10.6%. That means that there are about 1,067,613 people just in the state of Michigan, that don’t have a job. With Michigan being the lowest employed state in the country and Hillsdale County the lowest employed county in Michigan; that means that Hillsdale has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country at around 18%. That’s about, 5,310 people in Hillsdale that don’t have a job. So my advise to you people is to take any chance you can to get a job no matter what it is. If you can’t do that then I suggest you just get out of Hillsdale as soon as you can.