Jobs, the most crucial part of every state, seems to vanish increasingly every second, which leaves Michigan and its workers struggling to survive. One key point everyone seems to appears overlook is that regardless of how little of a job loss that a state experiences, it ultimately has a colossal impact. Nowadays, there are numerous states that experiences a form of job loss on a normal basis because of companies, who think making a quick buck should come before they would help their local economy. Aside from the high unemployment rates, these states lose money due to outsourcing and often cut pay for the new and remaining workers. Michigan is just one example of a state with a huge job loss that not only affects the main industrials, but also affects the workers and their families who live in the state. The auto industry is one of the gigantic sources for jobs in the state of Michigan, so it does not take a genius to figure out the impact of the job loss in auto industry. Significant restructuring in the auto industry, accounted for the majority of job losses in Michigan. Altogether, from December 2000 to December 2007, Michigan lost 211,000 in the auto industrial. Nevertheless, ever since the auto industry has started to close multiple of their plants down, it has been hurting the economy and their employees in a variety of ways. Firstly, with the closure of plants, they have laid off numerous amounts of workers for long periods of time. Accordingly, numerous of them will
Over the past five years, the federal government has also found it difficult to measure “improvement” in states. Currently, success is based in terms of job entry rate or increases over time in job entry rate, retention rate, and earnings gain. States may use quarterly unemployment insurance wage records, surveys, administrative records, or a combination of those data sources. States are given wide latitude in the sources of information they report. Also, to further distort the findings, there is no baseline data with which to make comparisons (Danziger, 2000).
Majority of the people that started working in the plants came from the south. These people were looking for work and the state of Michigan provided that for them, with no education needed to start working. This provided the men to take care his whole family. The job provided benefits, great pay, day care, and offer to pay for the schooling if interested while working for the car industry. More and more people started to move and settle in Michigan. When the country was going through its toughest time dealing with the recession people were laid off. People weren’t buying cars at that time because no one could afford it. When people have low income and the air that they breathe is polluted you might have some issues with the economy. With pollution and poverty running so high nothing will get solved but the problem could get worst if it is not prevented and halted. As the economy has gotten worse, the pollution got worse as
Detroit, Michigan grew up around the automobile industry. At its peak, Detroit was the fifth-largest city in the United States, becoming the home to over 1.8 million people by 1950 (Davey, Monica 2013). The prolific population was due greatly to the success of the auto industry in the city. At that time, Detroit was flying high, its name coined “The Motor City” (americaslibrary.gov), and automobiles greatly impacted commercialization. From transporting goods to hastening production, to selling parts, to manufacturing and selling new automobiles, the auto industry completely transformed Detroit. Things seemed
In addition to the Housing Bible hit, California also lost 952,800 jobs between July 2007 and July 2009. These losses erased the 846,000 jobs that the state had gained in the four-year period between July 2003 and July 2007. Particularly hard hit was the construction industry, in which the number of jobs fell by almost 30 percent. By July 2009, California’s rate of unemployment rate was at 11.9 percent. Another downside was that an estimated 1.4 million Californians were underemployed, many working in low paying, part-time jobs which lacked benefits such as healthcare. Many workers found themselves working in positions in which they were overqualified and their skills were largely unused.
This paper explores the economic restructuring and revitalization of Detroit Michigan post World War II until today. The purpose of this research paper is to show the history of Detroit’s auto and manufacturing industry, in what ways it has changed in recent years, and how it has helped define the economy of Detroit and damaged it. This paper suggests that the deindustrialization of plants and industries and the depopulation of whites to the Suburbs have triggered the economic downfall of the Motor City. Some social issues such as race discrimination and segregation that might have led to the riots of 1943, and 1967, and the migration of African Americans to Northern States in search of employments will be discussed as well. In
There exists a schism in contemporary dialogue on a large scale over the State of Michigan’s plans to increase the minimum wage from seven dollars and fifty cents to ten dollars. Although increasing the minimum wage may seem beneficial to some, possibly stimulating the economy or increasing the standard of living for those who live below the poverty line, when looking at the economic issue through a larger lens and placing it into its context, one finds that by increasing the minimum wage, not only is the State of Michigan not addressing the most critical sector of his citizens, thereby not creating the most viable or efficient of solutions, but that this solution is likely to not even be beneficial but rather detrimental to the American economy. Our economy, already fragile, could be sent back into a recession because of policies like these. This essay will attempt to summarize and analyze the problems with raising the minimum wage both on an individual level (for each business, each individual, etc…) and also on an institutional level (how it will damage our economy).
This report provides data on the current budget of the State of Michigan. It includes data on state government finances based on information collected from the 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report CAFR, and the State of Michigan Executive Budget for the fiscal year 2016. This report covers the following: revenues, expenditures, and debt, fund balances, and credit rating. For many years, Michigan 's economy declined while the nation 's economy thrived. Grasping this one-state recession is essential for determining Michigan 's economic present and future. It is also important to understand why Michigan stayed in a recession while the rest of the country’s economy flourished, and why it ended, because those may be vital solutions to avoiding another downturn.
In 2008 and the years after, the auto industry along with most other industries suffered greatly due to the recession. This impacted Detroit, the Motor City, greatly. Thousands of people were out of work, many companies leaving the area, and the overall moral of the city changed.
In 2009 the American auto industry was in a dire economic state. Chrysler was in Chapter 11, GM was on the brink of bankruptcy, and Ford’s future was at best uncertain. The demise of the U.S. auto industry would have a devastating impact on our national economy and specifically the economies of Michigan and Ohio.
In the latter part of 2008, the United States’ economy was rapidly plummeting - the stock market crashed, the housing bubble burst and gas prices skyrocketed. The majority of U.S. based firms faced the reality that they would not be able to survive during such desperate economic times. The U.S. automobile industry, in particular, began to buckle under the depressed economy. The government stepped in proposing a multi-billion dollar bailout to stimulate the economy and restore economic balance. The possibility of this unprecedented government intervention was condemned by many economists. If the government helped the ailing automotive industry, this industry would have to tighten their expenditures and plan for the future to prove to
First, in order to better understand the scale of the problem let’s take a closer look at the numbers. Since late 2007, nearly 8.5 million jobs were lost; in
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