Jobless rate rises in Ohio

Jobless rate rises in Ohio
Manufacturing hit hard in June; 3,400 lose work
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Alison Grant
Plain Dealer Reporter
The Ohio unemployment rate crept higher in June as the state shed jobs and employment at factories sank to a new low.

The unemployment rate rose to 5.8 percent in June from 5.6 percent in May, reflecting both seasonal entrants into a slack market and a loss of 14,300 jobs, spread across most sectors except government.
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Though the state jobless rate rose in June, the U.S. rate was unchanged at 5.6 percent. Closer to home, the numbers were worse: Cuyahoga County's unemployment rate rose from 6.2 percent to 6.8 percent last month.

And Cleveland's unemployment rate rose from 11.8 percent to 12.7 percent. Economists treat local numbers gingerly because they are more volatile and less reliable than state and national figures.
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http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business/1090056657180622.xml

Using my native Buckeye-speak, how's come nobody told them about the latest jobs report? Or, the Ohio local media? I keep hearing about how SUPER-HAPPY-FUN the Buckeye State is right now!

:eyes:

in Downtown Cleveland for a few days. Panhandler-slalom could be a freakin' Olympic sport , the jobless and homelss rates have gotten so high. Yesterday, walking around the corner from a Chinese carryout place back to my office, two totally seperate guys hit me up, not for change, but for my lunch. And this is not an unusual occurrence. It's terrible to see so many miserable people everywhere, all the time. 5 years ago, plenty of these folks had real work. Now they're reduced to asking for change and cleaning up Jacob's Field after ballgames for 25 bucks. We're turning into Detroit at a rapid clip.

With all those people with tech degrees who are bagging groceries at Meijer and stocking shelves on the 'lobster shift' at SprawlMart for a fifth of their former wages. They can find out how all those years on the line add up to a much better-assembled Big Mac (again, for a fifth of somebody's former wages), or how much fun it is for laid-off CSRs to make a trouble call on their computers and have someone lie and tell them they're from Iowa, when in reality they're living out of a cardboard box in Bangalore. It's just one big boomtown here, too.

My roommate's an I.T. guy, and he spent years working as a clerk at a record store before he finally found a gig in his field - help desk (for which he's MASSIVELY overqualified), 2nd shift, 5pm-1:30am, so his entire social life ceased to exist in a snap, and he counts himself among the extremely lucky to have work at all, despite that he earns squat for what he does. Remember the late '80s when we were told that computer knowledge was a one-way ticket to affluence? Bah.

Oh. Wait.

endorse the asshole come October.

l economy, I don't see Bush having a chance at the state.

The unemployment rate rose to 5.8 percent in June from 5.6 percent in May, reflecting both seasonal entrants into a slack market and a loss of 14,300 jobs, spread across most sectors except government.

Yet, many people will vote for Bush and other Republicans because they're against big government and they don't want to pay taxes for it, but if it wasn't for government, even more of them would be out of a job.

Can somone explain that logic to me?

For a while there I saw only Bush stickers on cars -- now I see some Kerry stickers. I hope we can take Ohio, but there is a core of millions of conservative, uneducated, truck-driving, fascist, hard-drinking types here -- they don't agree with the Dems social policies but they are sick of losing jobs. The economy is the key issue for Kerry to stress.

The BLS data release for states and regions isn't due until Tuesday (the 20th). :wtf: