Ohio jobless rate nudges up to 11.2%

Source: Dayton Business Journal

Friday, August 21, 2009, 11:18am EDT

The state saw little change in the labor market in July, but job losses among goods-producing industries in the state helped push Ohio’s unemployment rate up slightly, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported Friday.

The department said the state’s jobless rate hit a seasonally adjusted 11.2 percent last month, up from 11.1 percent in June and 6.7 percent a year ago. Ohio’s jobless rate topped the 11 percent mark in June, a level not seen since the 1981-82 recession.

Keeping the state’s unemployment rate from climbing much further in July was the service sector, which gained more than 12,000 jobs over the month to hit payroll of about 4.3 million. The biggest increases were seen in the hospitality, education and health services and financial sectors, the department said. Those gains were somewhat offset by a net loss of 2,400 jobs in the construction and manufacturing industries.

Nonfarm payroll in Ohio is down by nearly 255,000 compared with July 2008, with more than half of all losses coming from the goods-producing sector.



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Where are the jobs?

California is now at 11.9, if these numbers are right.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/21/BUQ919BU5U.DTL&tsp=1


The other night a group of 6 of us were out and we realized at one point that of all of us, DH included, only one of my friends and myself are employed. And we are in SF where the recession allegedly hasn't been as bad.

Pretty sobering.

:scared:

Northern Wisconsin 17% unemployed.

At 52 years old and currently working only two days a week at a low wage job .Finding a good job just does'nt exsist ,they are only hiring part time to prevent them from providing any kind of benifits ,health care,sick pay and vacation pay etc. Its really sad to see how the greedy owner of the company I work two days a week for finds ways to save money all off the back of those who have the hardest job's and the managers are still getting all their benifits and their 100K a year salary ! I really want to just move away start a new life somewhere else, the cost of living in N. California is way beyond my means. However I have two young children a 12 year old boy and 14 year old girl ,who have lived here all of their lives and are terified of change ! Well they may not have much choice if this keeps up ,Iam tired of not even being able to make it from one paycheck to the next and walking around without $ in my pocket, :-(
NikRik

I'm sorry this is happening. Where in Nor Cal are you seeing jobs? North of the San Francisco Bay Area? I live in the Bay Area and my daughter's boyfriend had to go back to Hawaii to get a job.

Good luck to you and welcome to DU.

And welcome to DU. :hi:

Fresno County is over 15% and this at a time that should be our lowest unemployment due to harvest time within the farming community. 'Course they cut off our water this year so thousands of acres are lying fallow and putting thousands and thousands out of work. We literally have starving FARMING families. How's that for irony?

In one of the wealthiest states in the Union? In a state that, were it a country, would kick someone out of the G7, if my memory is correct? Farmers starving? WTF?

It all just makes me so sad for the people literally starving and so angry at the millionaires/billionaires in this state who sit back and play the fiddle.


And the poster above said 17% in I think Northern Wisconsin?


Good wishes and virtual hugs to all here who have it so much worse than DH and I do.

:hug:


Edited to change Vermont to Northern Wisconsin, once I rechecked post above.

A bad drought? That means much less food for the country. That's crazy!!

I'm so sorry. I don't understand greed. Never will.

I don't think you realize just how many people are out of work right now and how little an impact that recall of workers will have.

1800 (I think) but the GM foundry in my town called everyone who was laid off, back about 2 weeks ago and they were not part of the plants that were announced. So I really think it was more. But every little bit helps:shrug:

Great news, but I thought GM had totally shut down almost all of its Ohio plants.

neighbor and a few others, who work there, have told us they called everybody back. The parking lot seems more full lately also. I used to work in the cafeteria there and when I would go to work (third shift) I would have to wait for the 2nd shift to leave before I could find a parking spot. Now they're a dime a dozen, it's really sad.

After Summer Shutdown, Ohio GM Plant Reopens

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112073669

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090811/BUSINESS02/908110349

"The plant - recognized several times as the most productive of its kind in North America - worked an overtime day on Saturday for the first time in months in an attempt to keep up with increasing demand. Other Saturday production days are scheduled...

The Toledo Powertrain plant has been named the most productive powertrain factory in North America in three of the last five years by the Harbour Report, a well-respected annual national study of automotive manufacturing facilities. The Toledo plant won the award in 2007 and 2008...

GM is building a new production line at its Toledo facility for the six-speed front-wheel-drive transmissions, expected to debut next year in small cars. That Toledo line will be one of only two sources in North America for GM's fuel-efficient small-car transmissions. Another variant of the front-wheel-drive transmission will be built in Warren, Mich.

Mr. Wood said he remains hopeful that the Toledo plant will return to an around-the-clock operation by the end of this year."

This is good news for us here in T-town. Tax revenues are way down and the city is hurting.

India and China where they've been sending them for the past 30 years.

The real question should be, "What value do companies place on work, what is defined as being work, and its quality?" Real questions. I doubt they'll be answered. Rush needs to continue flapping his anus over the microphone for 50 million dollars per year...