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Publication Much like the rest of the United States, Ohio’s economy was severely affected by the Great Recession and is recovering very slowly. Long periods of unemployment experienced by many jobless Ohioans have caused unprecedented disengagement...

The unemployment rate tumbled to 7.8 percent this month from 8.1 percent last month, according to new data out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Nonfarm Payrolls report. The labor force participation rate, which has been in steady decline since 200...

This year is expected to be a strong one for hiring, with 27 percent of employers planning to expand their payrolls, according to the National Association for Business Economics. There’s also an 8 percent increase projected in the number of recent...

  we got hit with a bunch of reports this week...in addition to the two employment reports covered by the Employment Situation Summary, this week also saw the release of the 1st estimate of 2nd quarter GDP by the BEA on Wednesday, the corresponding BEA...

Last week, we got the jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).  They reported a job gain of 162,000 for the month of July.  There wasn’t a lot of hoopla about it because the numbers were pretty pathetic.  Many analysts...