Ohio unemployment ticks up to 11.0 pct in March, highest since 1983

Source: AP

Posted: 10:24 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A slow and steady rise in unemployment has put Ohio's jobless rate at its highest level in more than a quarter-century.

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said Friday that unemployment rose slightly during March to 11.0 percent, from 10.9 percent in February.

Department spokesman Brian Harter says last summer's unemployment rates higher than 11 percent have since been revised downward. That means the March rate is the highest the state has seen since September 1983.

Still, Department Director Douglas Lumpkin says there was little change in the state's job market last month.

The number of unemployed workers was 655,000, up from 648,000 in February. The number of people employed outside of farms also increased in March, by 4,900.



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:sarcasm:

If not why does it work the other way round for you?

Obviously people can take one state's uptick and snidely proclaim that recovery is nowhere in sight - so why not the opposite?

NOTE for those to whom this is not obvious: I am in fact making no such claim - merely pointing out the absurdity of using one state out of 50 to draw any conclusion pro or con about any aggregate recovery.

Think of your handle here and you should see the point.....

A recovery from a recession/depression is not a half full/half empty scenario. Which I assume it is the case you are trying to make it.


Think of it as you being a patient with multiple organ failures. You could have an organ recover, but that still does not mean much because you are still in a life threatening situation. This is, you just can not die by a little or by a lot, dying is just that: dying. So the dichotomy is not straight forward, as long as some states are still in deep trouble, there will be still a recession. For an actual recovery to have taken place most states need to only not be creating jobs, but must have created enough to make up for all the jobs lost in the past few years.

It sucks, because a recovery is much much harder. But that is the reality. So the naysayers have in this case a far better case, whether that suits your fancy or not as an Obama fan is another case. We still have a long way to go.