MICHIGAN
Percent Unemployed Getting Benefits: 23% (16th lowest)
Percent Average Weekly Wage Covered: 32.6% (18th lowest)
Unemployment Rate: 7.4% (seventh highest)
Black Unemployment Rate (2013): 16.5%
Michigan’s unemployed workers received unemployment insurance benefits for an average of slightly more than 13 weeks. This was lower than in all but five other states and more than three weeks less than the average length nationwide. Additionally, only 23% of people who applied for unemployment insurance received benefits, among the lower rates for applications nationwide.
Michigan’s underemployment rate of 15.2% was one of the highest in the U.S.
The state’s unemployment rate of 7.4% in April was also among the highest in the nation.