Failure!
Posted on 07/17/2009 6:43:48 AM PDT by xzins
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s unemployment rate jumped to 11.1 percent in June, up from 10.8 percent in May and the first time in nearly 26 years that the rate has topped 11 percent.
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services released the rate on Friday, July 17.
“Ohio’s labor market continued to weaken in June,” Douglas Lumpkin, ODJFS director, said in a press release. “Significant job losses in both the goods-producing and service-providing industries led to an increase in the unemployment rate to 11 .1 percent.
The state’s nonfarm wage and salary employment decreased 33,000 over the month, from 5,133,200 in May to 5,100,200 in June.
The number of unemployed workers, however, increased to 662,000, up from 647,000 in May.
During the past 12 months, the number of Ohioans out of work has climbed by 279,000 from 383,000.
In June 2008 the jobless rate was 6.4 percent. The unemployment rate hadn’t been above 11 percent since an 11.2 percent rate in August 1983. The June jobless rate marked the third straight month the rate has been in double digits, starting with a 10.2 percent rate in April.
The national unemployment rate in June was 9.5 percent, up from May’s 9.4 percent rate.
In the Dayton area, Veronica Adkins, Kettering branch manager for Spherion, a recruiting and staffing company, said her office is seeing a lot of people who worked for Delphi and General Motors.
"The quality of people we're seeing is a lot different," she said. "You see a lot more qualified people. Usually at this time of the year her company sees lots of requests for seasonal employment but that's changed," said Adkins.
"We're not seeing seasonal orders," she said. Companies are doing more with less in areas of seasonal employment such as landscaping and warehouse work, she said.
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ABS in Wilmington on the radio this morning announcing they are cutting ONE THOUSAND more jobs. One guy who took a severance from DHL, counting on Obama’s promise of jobs, says his severance has now run out.
Losses are broad: manufacturing, retail, service, farming, etc.
Obama and Strickland have royally messed up this state and show ZERO hope of revival with high taxes and government restrictions.
Buck up, Buckeyes: Obama’s plan is WORKING! Joe Biden just said so.
Failure!
Wow, and I thought Florida was bad at over 10%. And yeah, Florida went blue too. So much for Hope and Change.
Not to worry, that second stimulus will turn it all around!
0bama has propaganda commercials for how great ObamaCare is all set and ready to go in this state, so he is not worried.
He also will appoint someone to appoint someone to appoint someone to be in charge of teleprompting bullcrap 0bama propaganda speeches in all of the states ACORN stole for him- so nothing to see here move along.
This guy obviously missed the memo...it’s Bush’s fault. But not to worry, once we get Obamacare and cap-and-tax...the economy will rebound and we’ll have full employment! Kumbayaaaaaa..........
Obama’s plan is working... and by the time Obamacare, Cap and trade and the second stimulus are passed and signed into law.. the only thing left for Obama and his clowns to do is rush through amnesty for all the illegals so they can stay in power! They are ruining the country!
Hope & Change in full effect.
I fear a long cold winter for many of my fellow Ohioans.
THE ROOF IS LEAKING
The roof is leaking and the wind is howling
Kids are crying ‘cos the sheets are so cold
Woke this morning found my hands were frozen
I’ve tried to fix the fire, but you know the damn thing’s too old
It’s been months now, since we heard from our Mary,
I wonder if she ever made the coast
Well she and her young man, they both moved out there
I sure hope they write, just to let us know
And me, I’m getting stronger by the minute
My wife’s expecting, but I hope she can wait
‘Cos this winter looks like it’s gonna be another bad one
But Spring’ll soon be here,
Ohh.... but I hope it’s not late
Ma and Pa lived here, and theirs before them
They tried their hardest to make it a home
Seems so long now since they passed over
Hope my children try to make it their own
Well my roof is leaking and the wind is howling
The kids are crying, ‘cos the sheets are so cold
Woke this morning and my hands were frozen
Oh I’ve tried to fix the fire, but you know the damn thing’s too old
But me, Oh I’m getting stronger by the minute
My wife’s expecting, but I hope she can wait
‘Cos this winter looks like it’s gonna be another bad one
But Spring’ll soon be here,
Ohh.. God I hope it’s not late
I was in Florida just last week. The housing bubble hurt you all bad, but in your favor is not having an income tax and only a 7% sales tax rate. It’s a business friendly state. Private businesses were everywhere.
In Ohio we have an income tax, nearly the same sales tax, and taxes and fees on everything imaginable and something like the 3rd highest business tax in the nation and one of the highest in the world.
If you’re a business, would you want to come here?
Well, payback’s a bitch, ain’t it. Too bad all the people who lost jobs aren’t ones who voted for him. They richly deserve it.
We're not unemployed, we're FUN-employed... the marxist media tells us so! More Change! More Change!
Punish success! Reward Sloth! Suppress the job builders, and force states to increase the amount unemployment checks! What a perfectly logical system.
Dear God, let us have some "change" when we win the skirmish of 2010, and the "war of 2012" (play theme of 1812 overture here.)
Ohio has been emulating Michigan in its economic approach, embracing Democrats while going into the sewer. Sad to see my birthplace in such bad shape.
When NCR left Strickland complained that NCR didn’t even bother to talk about staying.
Take a hint Ted, you are in a really bad place when the complaints stop. It means that they have just given up,
because they know that it is a waste of time.
Texas’ unemployment fund dried up....
how many others are to report?
It used to be that if unemployment went to 6-7 percet, we were looking for a new gov’t!
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