Michigan jobless rate up 0.3 points to 8.7 percent

Michael Martinez The Detroit News Comments Zoom Michigan’s June unemployment rate rose three-tenths of a percentage point to 8.7 percent, the first uptick in the state’s unemployment numbers in a year. State officials attributed the increase to more people looking for work in June. May’s unemployment rate of 8.4 percent was unchanged from April. The last time the state’s jobless rate increased was in June 2012, when it was 9.3 percent, according to the state Department of Technology, Management & Budget, which released the latest monthly data on Wednesday. Michigan’s jobless rate remains higher than the nation’s June rate of 7.6 percent, which was unchanged from May. “Michigan’s jobless rate...