State of Ohio’s employment summary: April 2012
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) released state figures this morning noting that Ohio’s unemployment rate continues to slowly decline, currently settling at 7.4 percent in April, down from 7.5 percent in the month of March. The number of workers unemployed in the state of Ohio in April was 431,000, down from 438,000 in March.
As noted in our May 4 blog post, the U.S. unemployment rate for April dropped by 0.1 percent to 8.1 percent, which is down from March’s 8.2 percent and down almost a full percentage point from 9.0 percent in April 2011.
