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Ford Offers Buyouts to All UAW Workers
DETROIT, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co (F.N) said on
Monday it is offering its 41,000 U.S. factory workers buyouts
and early retirement offers in a bid to reduce its payroll
costs as it aims to return to profit by 2011.
The buyouts mark the second round of such offers [...]

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Can Detroit Be Saved?
Dave Bing has just signed on to four years of maybe the most futile and thankless job in America: mayor of Detroit. What in the world was he thinking?
“I wouldn’t have taken this job if this wasn’t doable,” he says. “I finished basketball in 1978, then went into my own business in [...]

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End of the Line for Pontiac Assembly Plant
This year, thousands of Michigan families are losing their jobs with the Big Three automakers and their suppliers. On Tuesday alone, Pontiac Assembly Center, the last assembly line in the scrappy capital seat of Oakland County, built its last truck. It is one of seven factories that General [...]

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He truly is the spirit of Detroit
Music Videos - Kid Rock - American Badass (Uncensored)

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Michigan Unemployment Up to New Record 15.2%
Michigan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in June rose one and one-tenth percentage points to 15.2 percent, according to data released Wednesday by the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth.
The total number of unemployed in the state reached 740,000 in June, the highest monthly total in Michigan’s current [...]

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MI Will Lose Another 300K Jobs This Year
Michigan’s long series of job losses will cease in 2010, marking a 10-year slide that will have cost the state 950,000 jobs, or 20 percent of its work force, according to a mid-year forecast by a two influential University of Michigan economists.
But job losses remain fierce until then.
The [...]

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