Ohio leads the nation in job losses in March even though unemployment rate fell

[OhioChick]

Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer

Published: Friday, April 20, 2012, 7:00 PM

Cleveland, Ohio -- Ohio led the nation in job losses in March, even as the state's unemployment rate inched downward.

Fewer jobs, but more people working? Blame the contradiction on how data used in calculating the jobless rate are collected.

George Zeller, an economic research analyst in Cleveland, cited "technical inconsistencies" that caused the apparently conflicting numbers. Either way, the figures cement a disturbing trend, he said. Ohio --like much of the nation -- is experiencing a slow recovery.

"At the current rate, it will take Ohio more than 12 years just to recover the jobs that were lost in the 2007 recession," he said.

Read more: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/04/ohio_lead_the_nation_in_job_lo.html

[LynneSin]

1. How's that idiot Kasich working out for you Ohions

Let's hope we can get a democrat back in there in 2014.

[dballance]

2. So keep on voting for the GOP

how's that working out for you?

[KamaAina]

3. Rmoney shipped Ohio jobs to China. And you'll NEVER guess whose!

http://bungalowbillscw.blogspot.com/2012/03/romney-sent-ohio-etch-sketch-jobs.html

So now we have a campaign controversy where a Romney campaign adviser compares Romney to an Etch-a-Sketch, noting Romney will look conservative during the primary season, but he can be shaken up and reset so we can bring out the real Mitt Romney after the Republican convention. The real Mitt Romney meaning the Romney that despises the Reagan record and pushes the Obama side of the equation.

"Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again."

Well the Etch-a-Sketch comment may come back and hurt Romney not just with conservatives. It appears the critical state of Ohio will think back to the days when Ohioans went to work making the popular Etch-a-Sketch toy. That is until Mitt Romney's Bain Capital bought it up and sent those jobs to China.

For 40 years the Etch a Sketch was produced in Bryan Ohio by the Ohio Art Company. But in 2003 production was moved to China – putting 100 employees out of work in this small town of about 8,000 who had for decades billed itself as the home of the Etch a Sketch.



Obama campaign photo op in 3... 2... 1...

[RZM]

4. Ohio, as usual, is going to be a toss-up this year

I really can't say. Kasich will get alot of the blame for the economy, but he's not up this year. Obama will get some of it as well.

I'd say 50-50 this year, 65-35 that Kasich is gone in 2014, as long as the Dems can put up somebody halfway decent.

[samplegirl]

5. The A-hole Kasich is working on defunding Planned Parenthood at the moment

The idiot would of done even more to destroy Ohio...but SB 5 set him back for just a little while.

[IamK]

6. people in ohio will vote on the economy/jobs

President Obama & Kasich will both be hurt at the polls if the economy does not get better & Barack is up first...

[HughBeaumont]

7. Wait a minute, isn't Kat$hit going around television "news" stations . . .

. . . bragging about how Ohio has been number one in job creation since he took over as governor?

Does any ONE of these media people call him out on that?



. . .. sorry, he's a Republican, so I already know the answer to that question . . .