Ohio Unemployment Rate for February 2016 Released

Ohio Unemployment Rate for February 2016 Released

Ohio's February 2016 unemployment rate remained unchanged from January 2016 at 4.9%.  This is an increase from 4.8% for December and 4.5% for November 2015.  It had reached a fourteen year low of 4.4% in October 2015.  The number of unemployed increased from January by 6,000 to a total of 285,000.  The largest losses in jobs were state government losing 2,800 jobs, manufacturing losing 2,300, and leisure and hospitality reduced by 2,200.

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Ohio Unemployment Rate for January 2016 Released

Ohio Unemployment Rate for January 2016 Released

Ohio's January 2016 unemployment rate increased again to 4.9% from 4.8% in December and 4.5% in November 2015.  It had reached a fourteen year low of 4.4% in October 2015.  The number of unemployed increased from December by 6,000 to a total of 279,000.  The largest losses in jobs were professional and business services losing 6,500 jobs and local government jobs losing 5,500.

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National Employment Figures Show Increase in Jobs though Stagnant Unemployment Rate

National Employment Figures Show Increase in Jobs though Stagnant Unemployment Rate

Job figures for December show a better than expected increase of jobs while the unemployment rate remained unchanged for the third month in a row, as did the numbers of long-term unemployed, involuntary part-time workers, and people marginally attached to the labor force.

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