COLUMBUS — Ohio’s unemployment rate has dropped for the ninth month in a row, a trend that continues to place the state below the national rate, officials said Friday.
Late last week the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services released December 2011 employment/unemployment figures for the greater Columbus area, with the unemployment rate — not adjusted for seasonal variations — dropping to 6.4 percent. This rate was down from November’s 6.6 percent, and was far below the unemployment rate of 7.7 percent in December 2010. And the reaction at the Department of Job and Family Services? According to their spokesman, Benjamin Johnson, “It shows definite improvement … (i)t shows a strengthening economy and an improving job market.”
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.”
COLUMBUS — A long, steady decline in Ohio unemployment paused in May, but state officials said Friday that the job market continued to improve and outperform those in other states despite the unchanged jobless rate.