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Good news for one state is bad for two others. Jesse Russell reports:

Michigan is the birthplace of automobile manufacturing and as the grip of the recession grew tighter it was also impacted the most. The state is leads the country for unemployment with a rate of 14.1 percent with some regions even breaking the 20 percent unemployment mark. Michigan, the home state of General Motors, has suffered greatly with the collapse of the U.S. Automobile industry, but on Thursday Michigan autoworkers received a small dose of good news. A plant in Orion Township, near Pontiac, Michigan, has been chosen to produce GM's new subcompact car creating 1,200 jobs in the area. The good news for Michigan is bad news for two other plants, one in Wisconsin and one in Tennessee. Those plants were on the shortlist to receive the production order, but for the time being will have to continue waiting to see if work comes down the production line.