Let's check on the frozen kingdom of Queen Gretch to see how things

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It’s always winter and never summer in Michigan.

I know we like to make fun of Her Majesty Gretchen Whitmer for her abysmal policies that have hurt the Mitten State…

But you can’t argue with the data.

Another 9,000 Michiganders became unemployed in November as the unemployment rate ticked up for the eighth straight month, growing at double the national average.

Overall, employment in Michigan fell by 7,000 jobs last month, while unemployment increased by 9,000, ‘resulting in a workforce gain of 2,000 since October,’ according to the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget.

Wayne Rourke, the labor market information director for the Michigan Center for Data and Analytics, had this stellar observation.

Michigan’s unemployment rate increased this month, primarily due to a rise in the number of unemployed people.

Jobs reports are full of gobbledygook about rates and ratios and all sorts of confusing mumbo jumbo, but you can read the stats from the official report if you’d like:

Unemployment can come from people who have lost jobs or people who have given up on the job market entirely. In a land of regulation like Michigan, a lot of people just quit trying to take risks or innovate. Why work when you can get paid to sit around?

Since November 2023, Michigan’s labor force has lost about 10,000 participants, as the number of unemployed as [sic] swelled by 36,000, or 17.3%.

‘As a result, Michigan’s unemployment rate is the highest it has been since November 2021, when the state’s economy was still rebounding from the pandemic,’ according to the Detroit Free Press. ‘In the months leading up to the pandemic, the state’s jobless rate was at about 3.7%.’

In November, 2,000 jobs were lost in the trade, transportation, and utilities industry and 1,000 jobs were lost in retail.

Over the last year, Michigan’s critical manufacturing industry led the losses with 8,000 jobs gone, followed by retail with a 4,000 job loss, and professional and business services, down 1,000.

The data follows announced layoffs in the automotive industry last month, when General Motors cut 1,000 employees, with more than half from its Global Technical Center in Warren. That decision came just three months after GM laid off 1,000 in August, including 600 at the tech center.

Despite the dismal jobs and economic data, Democratic lawmakers spent the last week before Christmas trying to ram through unpopular gun laws, as well as laws that would massively increase gas taxes and annual vehicle registration taxes (which they call “fees”) and laws that would fine residents $1,000 for “election disinformation.”

Gov. Whitmer was criticized by her own party for largely ignoring their efforts (probably because she wants a future at the national level and knows she needs to get off the ship she helped sink before it’s too late).

But never fear: She’s going to “fix” the problem by shelling out more taxpayer dollars for the unemployed.

On Monday, Whitmer signed into law Senate Bill 40, which will increase the number of weeks Michiganders can receive unemployment insurance from 20 to 26, while boosting the cap on weekly benefits from $326 to $614 over the next three years, The Detroit News reports.