State of Ohio’s Employment Summary: December 2011
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) released state figures this morning noting that Ohio’s unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in December, down from 8.5 percent in the month of November. The number of workers unemployed in the state of Ohio in December was 469,000 down from 496,000 in November.
As noted in our January 6 blog post, the U.S. unemployment rate for December dropped slightly by 0.1 percent to 8.5 percent, which is down from November’s 8.6 percent.
