WASHINGTON — The United States added 227,000 jobs in February in the latest display of the economic recovery’s surprising breadth and brawn. The country has put together the strongest three months of pure job growth since the Great Recession.
WASHINGTON — Moderate, secular and well-educated people propelled Mitt Romney to victory in Ohio’s Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, an exit poll of voters showed. Rick Santorum drew robust support from the state’s most ardent conservatives and eked out a modest margin among the working class, whom he has targeted in his drive to slow Romney’s march toward the GOP nomination.
Delaware City could see 2,500 new jobs and an additional $2.6 million annually in taxes if all goes as hoped with the Sawmill Parkway extension and the development it would make possible, said Dan Whited, the city’s economic director.
Columbus-based attorney Jim Reese will focus on creating jobs through small businesses if elected to the 12th District of the U.S. Congress.
Some have advanced degrees and remember middle-class lives. Some work selling lingerie or building websites. They are white, black and Hispanic, young and old, homeowners and homeless. What they have in common: They’re all on food stamps.
What a difference a week makes. Last week as I described my 2012, economic outlook I undoubtedly came off as a pessimist rather than the “pragmatic optimistic” label I attached to myself. In my analysis, I indicated that other analysts might not be considering the full range of issues that could keep growth relatively modest throughout the year, including the influence of the EU sovereign debt crisis, the uncertainty regarding the state of consumer finances and the over-estimated strength of labor markets.
WASHINGTON — The final weeks of 2011 were among the economy’s strongest as Americans shopped and traveled more, ending the year with a shot of optimism for 2012.
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s unemployment rate saw its largest one-month decline in nearly 30 years during November amid improvement in the state’s job market and overall economy, and as thousands of the state’s jobless stopped searching for work, officials said Friday. Gov. John Kasich called the report “encouraging.”