Friday, July 22, 2011

As Kasich’s “Jobs” Budget becomes law, Ohio’s unemployment starts rising again.

As Kasich’s “Jobs” Budget becomes law, Ohio’s unemployment starts rising again. - Plunderbund: "We’ve talked about how through February 2010 until April 2011, Ohio was on a consistent fourteen-month streak of seeing its unemployment rate drop every month.  That was second only to the streak that began in 1983 in terms of longest consecutive streak of consistently dropping monthly unemployment rates in Ohio.  The streak ended in May when Ohio’s unemployment rate stayed the same as it did in April. This morning, the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services released its June unemployment report for Ohio. The number of Ohioans that are unemployed grew by 9,000 from May to June and the unemployment rate grew to 8.8%, faster than the national rate grew for the same period. This is the first time since August 2009 that Ohio’s unemployment rate has gone up..."

2 comments:

MotivatedinOhio said...

Dam I miss Ted Strickland!

Underground Politics said...

You, me and most of Ohio!