National Association of Counties: Only three Michigan counties have recovered from Great Recession [View all]

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That many?

http://voicenews.com/articles/2016/01/16//news/doc569911793cb4c753236633.txt

If county economies are the building blocks of state economies and ultimately the national economy, 2015 brought reasons to celebrate and reasons for concern.

The good news is "close to half the counties saw growth across all indicators in 2015, a 15 percent increase over the previous," wrote Dr. Emilia Istrate, research director for the National Association of Counties, and Dr. Brian Knudsen, research analyst, the authors of a new study of county economic wellbeing.

The bad news is that only 7 percent of all counties in the United States have returned to pre-recession levels of economic vibrancy.

In Michigan, only three counties have bounced back from the Great Recession of 2009 – all of them clustered around Grand Rapids....

Of course, the Chosen People