Every department reported to me, and it was a challenge to lead a group at that age, with so little business experience.
The department reported that there were 18.2 million manufacturing jobs last month.
Michigan lost an estimated 15,000 jobs last month, the department reported.
The department also reported that last year, the average residential property value went up by 6.9 percent.
The department had previously reported 424,000 new claims for the week ended May 2.
Domestic installations were up 80 percent last year, the department reported.
An increase of 10 percent, to 110 billion cigarettes, is forecast, the department reported.
But the department has also reported on the numbers of those stops that result in an arrest.
In the first quarter, the department reported that productivity fell 1.9 percent.
It was undetermined when the department might report its results, he said.