Your blogger’s home state of Michi­gan saw jobs leave well before the reces­sion, saw them leave in droves dur­ing the reces­sion, and is still see­ing them leave after the recession.

All this was con­firmed today by the Michi­gan League of Human Ser­vices. A new study released by the league says that 1 in 7 peo­ple in Michi­gan live below the poverty line. That brings us to the sev­enth high­est state in the Union. The fig­ures are based on US Cen­sus Bureau data.

From WLNS-TV, Can­dice Burns dives into the num­bers fur­ther and talks to a human ser­vices representative.

A report based on 2008 US cen­sus data released by the Michi­gan League of Human Ser­vices shows more fam­i­lies are liv­ing in the poor house.

Sharon Parks, Michi­gan League of Human Ser­vices: “What it really shows is a trou­bling pic­ture for Michigan.”

The num­bers reveal since 2001 the aver­age Michi­gan House­hold income has dipped below the nations aver­age by about 10%.

Fam­i­lies of color have been hit even harder, on aver­age both His­panic and Latino house­hold incomes have declined by about 14%, African American’s fell by about 16-percent.

Parks: “I can’t imag­ine that when we look at this in another year that it isn’t gong to be some­what worse because we are still los­ing jobs in Michi­gan, the jobs aren’t com­ing back fast enough.”

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