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While the number of payroll jobs remained steady, the unemployment percentage was affected by about 14,000 fewer people holding or seeking jobs.

Notices go out from the state this week to thousands of Michigan workers to let them know will have to start repaying improperly disbursed unemployment benefits.

Michigan’s July unemployment rate was 1.1 percentage point higher than the national rate. It is also half a percentage point higher than it was at this time a year ago.

The Michigan monthly jobs report released Wednesday shows the state’s unemployment rate dropped by one-tenth of a percentage point to 5.4%.

Michigan’s unemployment rate edged up in February by one-tenth of a percentage point to 5.4%, the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget says.

Consumer sentiment hit an eight-month low, thanks to the looming threat of tariffs and climbing prices.

Jobless workers will be able to collect unemployment benefits for a little more than six months under bills signed Monday by Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Michigan residents could see their unemployment benefits grow under bills that passed the state Senate Thursday.

The Michigan Department of Technology, Management, and Budget released October jobs data Thursday, showing Michigan’s jobless rate last month ticked up to 4.7%.

Michigan’s jobless rate ticked up in August to 4.5% percent. This is the third month in a row the state unemployment rate has bumped up.