ACTUAL unemployment for Michigan is about 11%.

The various governments [[Federal especially) like to ignore more than half of the unemployed,.. so as to make their numbers look better.

So instead of using U6 as they always had,.. they now use U3, which ignores people who have simply given up looking,.. and ignores people who are only working one 8 hour shift a week at minimum wage,.. and ignores people whose unemployment ran out, etc, etc. [[Yes,.. if you go on unemployment and it runs out,.. and you still haven't found a job,.. they don't count you as unemployed any more).

There's also the ever increasing push to get people to go to college. Even 1/2 wits for whom college won't help. The reason for that is three-fold. They can fill your head full of propaganda,.. they can get you into lots of debt debt [[which makes their banker friends happy),.. and college attendees don't count as unemployed. Wins all around !

Through the first quarter of 2016,.. Michigan had a U3 of 5.2%,.. but the real number [[U6) was 11.2% still. Also,.. the housing market will likely take a big downturn next Summer,.. so I expect that number to go up a bit.