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Michigan's Jobless Rate Still Nation's Highest LANSING, MI (MPRN) - Michigan's jobless rate of 15.3% remains the highest in the nation. Michigan's jobless rate was almost flat from August to September. It rose just one-tenth of a percentage point. But the state posted the biggest number of job losses over that period -- almost 43 thousand. The U-S Bureau of Labor Statistics says 26 other states and the District of Columbia posted unemployment rate increases. Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have double-digit unemployment rates. © Copyright 2012, MPRN