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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Yikes! Keep us informed as things develop. That's disatrous!
IIRC all the homeless DISAPPEARED in media view IMMEDIATELY after GHW Bush was replaced by BJ Clinton.
Interesting to me is the fact that the media (at least here in Indiana) are still talking about homeless in the 7 month of Baraq.
Does not matter. The MSM has it all explained!
1. Bush’s fault (worse than 9000 Hitlers - “at least National Socialist Hitler was green, vegetarian, promoted universal health-care, high minimum wage, nationalized lots of corporations, liked abortion and sterilization, instituted generous universal maternity leave packages, levied extreme taxation, regulated every part of the economy, and funded the arts to the hilt”), because of tax cuts, deregulation, and gitmo. Also Wal*Mart and oil companies. Don’t ask how, just ask Paul Krugman - he has a Nobel prize!
2. Imagine how much worse the situation would be WITHOUT the Obama stimulus! Why, we would have 35% unemployment across the nation right now! We thus need more stimulus!
3. More proof of rampant American racism - even the economy is racist. And Jim Thompson.
4. Universal healthcare will raise productivity and aid in economic recovery. This has been proven time and again in the roaring European economies, like Spain and the UK.
I agree that it helps Kasich. He is a true fiscal conservative who is pro-business. He should:
1. Link Strickland with Hussien with the economy
2. How Strickland used state government to intimidate anyone who criticises government (i.e. Joe the Plumber)
3. How the SoS refused to validate voter registrations especially when Mickey Mouse was registered to vote
Last but not least, Kasich should distance himself from Taft and Sen. Voinovich since it was these RINO’s that made Ohio vulnerable to the dems in the first place. Kasich should make it clear that it will be very different on his watch.
Result: Major GOP wins in Ohio in 2010.
Good for you, and good reminders.
One of my younger relatives asks those who lost/lose their jobs>?
You voted for Obama didn’t you?
So far most of the job losers voted for Obama. He tells them he is sorry, but their white guilt vote for Obama set this economic train wreck up.
Interestly, non of the Obama voters, who lost their jobs, argue with him. They just nod and shake their heads.
GREAT ARTICLE——THANKS FOR POSTING
Good point, but there's a big part of me that would be itching to ask how they vote, first. Cynical, I know, but I'm sick of playing nice with people who help destroy this country. Do stupid things, like vote for socialists, and learn your lesson the hard way. (see my tag)
Ohio is a microcosm: rural, urban, suburban. Huge mix of industries, businesses, people (even an ex-pat has to admit it’s not all buckeye necklace-wearing fanatics) and lifestyles.
Unfortunately this microcosm is a time capsule from the future i.e. it looks like what America will look like as failed liberal policies, wild-eyed overspending and attempts to place as many people on the dole as possible have gutted its reputation and status as a hard-working producer. This time capsule has flashing neon letters spelling W-A-R-N-I-N-G but its inept governor continues to splash red ink left right and center whilst blaming the big bad GOP for his own craven antics.
I personally know hundreds of productive, educated types who hit the road the minute they graduated college and the momentum has been building for decades.
Holy cow. Where in PA? Is there a link?
So scary! I heard a liberal say yesterday that the stimulus should have been bigger and he really believes the second stimulus will turn it all around!
I LOL'd.
I didn't ask him, but he knows how I feel about Obama, and he agreed. That doesn't mean he didn't vote for Obama, but I'm guessing that he won't vote for him the next time.
“Strickland is a pro-tax, pro-abortion, pro-gay, liberal democrat.”
Meanwhile, the conservative wing of the OH GOP was upset that socially conservative Sen. DeWine only voted with conservatives on 80% of issues, and after they couldn’t get a prominent conservative to run and take him out in the primary (I would have loved for Kasich or Portman to have run and defeated DeWine, but it didn’t happen), they sat on their hands and watched ultraliberal Sherrod Brown, who votes with conservatives on 0% of the issues, win the Senate seat.
I really hope that OH Republicans get their acts together and elect Kasich to the governorship and Portman to the Senate in 2010, and then defeat Brown in his 2012 Senate reelection (maybe with Ken Blackwell?).
That hurt almost as much as odumbo winning
Well prissy Charlene Crist signed the bill letting felons vote.
SEIU/ACORN (same group) is very active inb the illegal aliens (brazilian among others) community in FloriDuh. SEIU is the illegal alien union and are essentially the same organaization as ACORN.
Crist is also an open-border pro-illegal alien RINO.
Unemployment in CA, MI, OH, FL is heading to +15% by late summer.
Great point. NCR left because the Dems turned OH into a high cost, libtard sewer. The company was there for over 100+ years. Why would any company stay in places like MI, OH, CA, IL and other lib hell holes.
Michigan hit 15.1.
Here in my transplanted Colorado Springs, the rate actually went down from 7.5 to 7.4.
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