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Ohio unemployment rates released for December

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Topic: Ohio unemployment rates released for December
Posted By: Bwood
Subject: Ohio unemployment rates released for December
Date Posted: Jan 26 2009 at 10:06am

Ohio's unemployment rate was 7.8 percent in December, up from 7.3 percent in November. Ohio's nonfarm wage and salary employment decreased 33,400 over the month, from a revised November total of 5,363,100 to 5,329,700 in December.

"Job losses accelerated in December," ODJFS Director Douglas Lumpkin said. "The unemployment rate rose to 7.8 percent as job losses increased in both the goods-producing and service-providing industries."

The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in December was 465,000, up from 435,000 in November. The number of unemployed has increased by 118,000 in the past 12 months from 347,000. The December unemployment rate for Ohio was up from 5.8 percent in December 2007.

The U.S. unemployment rate for December was 7.2 percent, up from 6.8 percent in November.



http://jfs.ohio.gov/RELEASES/unemp/200901/UnempPressRelease.asp - http://jfs.ohio.gov/RELEASES/unemp/200901/UnempPressRelease.asp



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Posted By: Middletown News
Date Posted: Jan 26 2009 at 4:17pm

The unemployment rate keeps getting worse. Last December it was reported that unemployment was 7.3%.

http://www.middletownusa.com/view_news.asp?a=3946 - http://www.middletownusa.com/view_news.asp?a=3946


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