Ohio jobless rate tops 11% for June

[OhioChick]

Source: Business Courier

Friday, July 17, 2009, 10:08am EDT

Ohio manufacturers and service providers dropped more than 30,000 jobs last month, contributing heavily to a climb in unemployment to above 11 percent in June, the state reported Friday.

The state’s jobless rate continued its steady march upward, rising from 10.8 percent in May. The unemployment rate stood at 6.4 percent in June 2008.

The Department of Job and Family Services reported the state lost 33,000 nonfarm jobs last month, pushing down the number of employed Ohioans to about 5.1 million.

The ranks of those without jobs and actively looking for work climbed to 666,200 in June. Ohio’s unemployment ranks have increased by 279,000 persons from June 2008, the state reported.

“Ohio’s labor market continued to weaken in June,” Job and Family Services Director Douglas Lumpkin said in a 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.”



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Wonder what the true #'s are...

[Hannah Bell]

1. no news on sarah palin's antics? ho-hum.

[InkAddict]

2. The portal is now open....

Did you know that 1:11 on an LED/digital clock sheds the least light?

In numerology, LOL,

111 - Monitor your thoughts carefully, and be sure to only think about what you want, not what you don't want. This sequence is a sign that there is a gate of opportunity opening up, and your thoughts are manifesting into form at record speeds. The 111 is like the bright light of a flash bulb. It means the universe has just taken a snapshot of your thoughts and is manifesting them into form. Are you pleased with what thoughts the universe has captured? If not, correct your thoughts...

Visualizing change I can believe in (?)

O-H

[scarface2004]

3. mark sanford rejected ohio stimulus funds!!!

said ohio doesn t need no stinkin stimulus!!

[Jake Stillow]

20. Nah. Sanford accepted the stimulus money at the end

WASHINGTON — Gov. Mark Sanford will comply with a midnight Friday stimulus deadline and become the last governor in the nation to seek millions of dollars in federal economic-recovery funds for his state, aides said late Thursday.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/65407.html

[Ohio Joe]

4. I'm done with Ohio

After a year of being unemployed, hardly even a nibble, I'm done. I've made the arrangements and I'm going back to MA. Sometime in the next 4-6 weeks, I'll be Ohio Joe, the Jersey boy in Mass. :D

I probably should have given more thought to my name here... or at least changed it back when we could, heh.

[ChromeFoundry]

5. Can't say I blame you...

With Strickland at the helm...there may as well be nobody behind the wheel, and a brick on the gas pedal.

I am saddened that my vote helped a worthless man obtain a powerful position.

[YOY]

15. Dude...I AM an Ohio boy.

Not much motivating me to move back. I still have friends barely making ends meet who are too bullheaded to leave.

[maseman]

24. I grew up in Ohio

I have been working for a Maryland based company for nine years while working out of my home in NE Ohio. I just quit my job and took another so I would have more job security. However the new job requires me to move to the Boca Raton, FL. area. I figure even if something goes wrong at my new job I'll have a better chance of landing a gig in South Florida than I would in Ohio.

[midnight armadillo]

8. pre-welcome back

Massachusetts beats Ohio like a rented mule.

[Ohio Joe]

12. Thank you!

Previously, I lived in Worcester but upon my return I'll be in Natick. I'm really looking forward to it, Mass has it's problems but I really loved living there.

[sarcasmo]

10. Good move, don't bother coming north to Michigan, we topped 15 percent this month.

[pscot]

6. Sounds like Ohio hasn't gotten the news

Happy days are here again. Banksters are raking in money again, hand over fist. The recession is over.

[Red1]

7. Its a tough SOB

And probably will be for awhile. All depends on how quickly our handlers decide to re manufacture the economics of the country...its like the oil companys strugglin to come to grips with wind power or tide power or whatever. Obama sees nothing but the same ole, same ole. I admire him for taking on the task...placating the corps while truly trying to help Americans deal with the shrub legacy....But he is at the mercy of the house and senate and those guys are at the mercy of a really fucked up deal..the guys that voted for them are wanting results...

[Selatius]

9. I bet that the real unemployment numbers are somewhere between 15% to 20% and possibly higher.

If that is true, it's getting very bad. A rule of thumb taught to me is that you take the official unemployment number and double it. So that would leave you with 22% unemployment. Lots of history texts record national unemployment at around 25% during the Great Depression. That should give one an idea of how deep this recession is in certain parts of America.

For them, the Second Great Depression has virtually arrived.

[POAS]

11. Can't say I'm proud to have contributed to this stat....n/t

[OhioChick]

13. I'm sorry to hear that and hope you find something soon. n/t

[POAS]

16. It is temporary for now

No telling what the future holds however. At least most of our automotive product goes to Ford.

[samplegirl]

14. If I could sell my home.......

I would pack up and move...you can't buy a job here. I really believe we have not seen the worst of it yet here in Ohio.
Crime rate is up higher than ever. I know from canvassing that there were a large ammount of people here who voted themselves right out of job.
I have lived here all my life and it saddens me to see a once thriving community here where I live turning into a ghost town.
We have built our entire life here in Ohio and will never be able to retire. Obama says our Auto jobs are gone........most of our steel plants closed what the hell is there?
I see Ohio really being one of the states that will not recover.

[sarcasmo]

22. I agree, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio are screwed for years to come.

[taught_me_patience]

17. Sad.

I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY CITY WAS GONE
THERE WAS NO TRAIN STATION
THERE WAS NO DOWNTOWN
SOUTH HOWARD HAD DISAPPEARED
ALL MY FAVORITE PLACES
MY CITY HAD BEEN PULLED DOWN
REDUCED TO PARKING SPACES
A, O, WAY TO GO OHIO

WELL I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY FAMILY WAS GONE
I STOOD ON THE BACK PORCH
THERE WAS NOBODY HOME
I WAS STUNNED AND AMAZED
MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
SLOWLY SWIRLED PAST
LIKE THE WIND THROUGH THE TREES
A, O, OH WAY TO GO OHIO

I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY PRETTY COUNTRYSIDE
HAD BEEN PAVED DOWN THE MIDDLE
BY A GOVERNMENT THAT HAD NO PRIDE
THE FARMS OF OHIO
HAD BEEN REPLACED BY SHOPPING MALLS
AND MUZAK FILLED THE AIR
FROM SENECA TO CUYAHOGA FALLS
SAID, A, O, OH WAY TO GO OHIO

-Pretenders

Good luck to all those living in Ohio.

[ladym55]

18. Ohio is a mess

We had 16 years of short-sighted, greed-centered Rethuglican government. Rainy day funds were returned to the voters ... right before the economy faltered. oops. I have lost count of how long ago Ohio's education funding formula was ruled unconstitutional. We've STILL done nothing about that. (But we siphoned off money to charter schools, especially to those for-profits run by David Brennan)

Strickland has been hampered by a Senate that is STILL under Rethuglican control ... and they made sure that little or no legislation moved forward.

btw, we are STILL trying to pass a bill (HB 176) to make housing and job discrimination based on sexual orientation illegal in Ohio.

I'm in countdown mode now. My husband has 2 years to retirement and then we are OUTTA here!!! Both of my now-adult children have left the state already.

[drexel dave]

19. The birthplace of the Industrial revolution in many ways, Dayton now looks more like Chernobyl

nuff said from a native living and still getting by, barely, in Dayton.

[ladym55]

23. That really breaks my heart

My mother and my aunt lived there for many years and really loved it.

[drexel dave]

25. Dayton is a beautiful city

with beautiful people.

But Dayton has been going through this for about 30 years now.

Truck plant just shut down. NCR is moving out. The streets of the city are really quiet.

[sarcasmo]

21. Michigan top 15 percent this month, it is scary.

[ohio2007]

26. 2.3 million jobs lost since the stimulus bill was passed by CONgress

and they want to say "yes" to stealing more stimulus $$$ from the tax payers.


Ohio jobless rate will match Michigan's by the end of the year.
Of course, one out of every five living in Michigan will be unemployed by then.

imo, those jr dem congressman voting "no" to certain bills are setting themselves up for reelection as the "I told you so" canidates of choice.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3973875&mesg_id=3973875


But to be fair, we should give the stimulus bill another two years to trickle down to the auto workers looking for those new high pay jobs that will be created by then. Unless the rich close down the rest of the factories and flee to Canada, China or Mexico for a fresh start.