Ohio jobless rate hits 11.1 percent

Ohio jobless rate hits 11.1 percent

But we passed the stimulus without reading it, in record time. Spent more money than any bill ever in the house because Obama said that unemployment might hit 8.5% IF WE DID NOT go for it.
Now while everyone who had any chance to look at the bill said it was wasteful and would do nothing to help jobs, only hurt them, they were called "racists, haters and right wingers who just wanted the president to fail"

It is about time to admit that Obama is a failure as a leader, that he has taken control of America and is destroying the very fabric of our constitution as we believed he would. This is not BUSH's fault, It is the Congress lead by Pelosi and Obama!


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.

There are flickers of hope.

There are jobs for workers who get training in heating and air conditioning installation and repairs and non-clinical medical jobs such as billing specialists, said Adkins.