By year's end, Michigan is expected to have lost 950,000 jobs since 2000, or 20.3 percent of its workforce, according to a recent University of Michigan report, largely because of dramatic restructuring in the U.S. auto industry. Per-capita income in Michigan has fallen from 16th to 33rd over the same period. In the first quarter this year, 10.4 percent of all Michigan mortgages were past due -- the fourth highest of any state.
More on Obama's visit here.
So we pay their mortgages, their college education, and then what: their food bills (food stamps)? Clothes? Cable? Internet? It never ends...
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