The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) released state figures this morning noting that Ohio’s unemployment rate dropped slightly to 6.7 percent in December, down from 6.8 percent in the month of November. The number of workers unemployed in the state of Ohio in December was 388,000, down from 391,000 in December. Ohio’s unemployment rate in December 2011 was 8.5 percent.
As noted in our January 4 blog post, the U.S. unemployment rate remained unchanged at 7.8 percent from the revised numbers for December, down from 8.5 percent in December 2011. The national employment summary for January 2013, non-agricultural wage and salary data will be released by the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, February 1, 2013.
