Ohio's unemployment rate up to 10.9%

[Botany]

Source: ABC news

Ohio's unemployment rate has edged up to 10.9 percent for December, from 10.6 percent the month before.

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said Friday that the state's labor market weakened, led by losses in service-providing industries.

The figures were released on the same day that President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Ohio to talk about rebuilding the economy.

The number of workers unemployed in Ohio last month was 641,000, up from 624,000 in November.

Officials say the number of Ohioans out of work has risen by 196,000 in the last 12 months, from 445,000 in December 2008. The state's jobless rate a year ago was 7.4 percent.

The U.S. unemployment rate for December was 10.0 percent, unchanged from November.

In July, Ohio unemployment hit 11.2 percent, the highest level in about 26 years.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9633563

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Sadly the dems now in power will get the blame for the train wreck of an
economy that both the bush admin. and Ohio republicans help to cause.

[endless october]

1. and that's just the cooked rate.

the real rate is probably pushing 18 percent or more.

bring back manufacturing now. this is a national emergency.

shit, if we just brought back clothing and textile manufacturing, it would do wonders for the whole country. i'm willing to pay five to ten bucks more for a shirt if it means an end to this mess. how about you?

[EFerrari]

3. Exactly. It's more like 17-18% nationwide. n/t

[Botany]

4. Such as the company Rocky Boot in Nelsonville, OH?

They could still be making boots and money in Nelsonville, OH but the jobs were
shipped out of country for cheaper labor.

http://www.laborrights.org/creating-a-sweatfree-world/sweatshops/news/11346

[cufford]

8. Right on

But of course with the SCOTUS cementing corporate control of our government yesterday, you can be sure this will never happen.

At least not before U.S. workers and government regulations are down to the same level as they are in
China and third-world countries today.

Game over.

[Soylent Brice]

2. seems like a conservative estimate when you look around out here.

seems almost like 1 in 5 are unemployed out here.

[last1standing]

5. I'll see your 10.9% and raise you 4.1%

http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/17/news/economy/state_unemployment_report/index.htm

Michigan unemployment tops 15%
Government says jobless rate is the highest for a state since 1984. Rate tops 10% in 15 states and District of Columbia.

By Ben Rooney, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Last Updated: July 17, 2009: 11:52 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Michigan became the first state in 25 years to suffer an unemployment rate exceeding 15%, according to a report released Friday by the Labor Department.

The state's unemployment rate rose to 15.2% in June. It was the highest of any state since March 1984, when West Virginia's unemployment rate exceeded 15%.

Michigan, which has been battered by the collapse of the auto industry and the housing crisis, has had the highest unemployment rate in the nation for 12 months in a row.

And that was back in July. Imagine what its like here now. :scared:

[proudohioan]

9. Thanks, but no thanks!

Sorry about the hideous "Palinism".

t.

[Michigan-Arizona]

10. Senior economist says that the state will see unemployment rate jump to 17 to 20 percent within six

http://reportingmichigan.org/news/senior-economist-says-that-the-state-will-see-unemployment-rate-jump-to-17-to-20-percent-within-six-months

I see more foreclosure's in the Downriver area every time we go back home.

[last1standing]

11. I live downriver. It's a mess.

All those new houses that were built in the 90's and after are quickly becoming mausoleums dedicated to the ruins of the Michigan economy. As a people, we are honestly frightened.

[Michigan-Arizona]

12. Family & friend's we have there are quite worried & scared

Both hubby & I grew up in the Downriver area.

[last1standing]

13. Without help there will be no recovery here, either.

Our infrastructure isn't crumbling, it's crumbled. Our students grab their degrees and run as far away as possible. Our small businesses are closing up one after the other as fewer and fewer have the money to patronize them.

Meanwhile our legislators and governor play strategy games trying to pass the buck and the president has taken up his executive pen and scribbled us from his map.

We're becoming our own micro-nation of survivalists who believe that government is the problem, not the solution - and we're right. We are still taxed more than we get back in taxes and yet the average citizen is one of the poorest in the country. The government is literally draining blood from a turnip here.

Yet, the corporations who are taking our homes and withholding healthcare are being coddled by them.

Another poster called me bitter the other day.

He's right.

[OhioChick]

6. And that's not counting those that ran out of unemployment benefits and still can't find a job. n/t

[cufford]

7. Big suprise...NOT

"led by losses in service-providing industries."

So, after all the manufacturing jobs have been lost, now the self-perpetuating job losses is even claiming the minimum wage service jobs that were left.

Of course, the "recovery" rhetoric continues to be complete nonsense from the mainstream press and voices in this country, who essentially have their heads in the sand, and are instead all focused on Wall Street bank reforms, while ignoring the huge elephant in the room that is declining wages for the past 30+ years. The disaster that is so-called "Free Trade".

I've been saying this for over two years. We ain't seen nothing yet, this isn't some cyclical thing, and there will be no "turn-around". This is a decades-long slide to the bottom that is self-perpetuating and accelerating by the year, and we've got a very, very long ways to go before we even get close to having a "bottom" in sight. Not for decades yet.

And this wasn't caused by derivatives trading or any of the other scapegoat talking points about Wall Street bankers.

This is due to a 30+ year war on wages in this country, led by corporations and enabled by our legislative prostitutes, kicked into high gear by NAFTA and subsequent traitorous trade policies at the behest of these corporations.

Good paying jobs for the masses, gone. Manufacturing, gone. Leading exporter, gone. Strong economy, gone!

And now that our SCOTUS has cemented corporate control of our government, there is no possible way things will ever turn around in this country. It's game over for everyone but the super rich.

Without rising wages - which clearly will never happen - nothing can possibly turn around for our economy, and the periodic reports of this or that improvement are insignificant "happy talk" for the masses. Because the net direction continues to be down, and at an ever accelerating pace, and this has been obvious for the past few years.

More jobs lost...ya think?

[unabelladonna]

14. florida has also

experienced the highest unemployment rate....EVER. but i can take comfort knowing that bank bonuses are also the highest ....ever. this country will never, ever fully recover. we will continue to spiral downward. this is horrible.