Ohio’s unemployment rate was 5.9 percent in February, down from 6.2 percent in January, according to data released Friday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The U.S. unemployment rate was 5.6 percent in February, unchanged from January. Full Article
Ohio’s unemployment rate was 5.9 percent in February, down from 6.2 percent in January, according to data released Friday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The U.S. unemployment rate was 5.6 percent in February, unchanged from January. Full Article
Ohio’s rate of unemployment declined to 5.9% in February, down from 6.2% a month earlier, but the decline was attributed to a reduction in the size of the state’s workforce and not people finding employment, it was reported Friday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS). Full
Creating jobs and growing the economy are top priorities for state and local officials. Their tools of choice to achieve these goals may, however, be the least effective among those available to them. Too often public officeholders first embrace lowering taxes and creating tax incentives as their chief economic development
Although trade advocates argued that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other trade agreements would add jobs to the U.S. economy, 45,734 Ohio jobs lost between 1995 and October 2003 can be directly traced to international trade. A new Policy Matters Ohio analysis of data from the Trade
Policy Matters Ohio is evaluating the Cleveland living wage law. We are completing a report that will be forwarded to the Board when it is concluded. We are awaiting information from the city that will help in the completion of this report. Policy Matters Ohio is evaluating the Cleveland living
Ohio lost 66,900 jobs during 2003, or 1.2 percent of the total in the state, according to seasonally adjusted establishment survey numbers released Friday by the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services. Full Article
Ohio lost 66,900 jobs during 2003, or 1.2 percent of the total in the state, according to seasonally adjusted establishment survey numbers released Friday by the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services. Full Article
In 2005, Ohio lawmakers will likely consider whether or not to renew the law authorizing Ohio’s Enterprise Zone Program, a popular program initially created to spur economic development and job creation in distressed areas. Enterprise zones provide property tax abatements to firms that locate or expand within zone borders. This
Only slightly more than half of voting-age Ohioans voted in the 2000 presidential election. There were huge problems with this election nationwide, ranging from incorrectly cast votes, to voters being turned away from polls, to hotly contested results. The low voter turnout, high number of people denied the right to
Dayton Daily News Independence Day arrives this year amid a welter of changes in national and state tax policy. Who gets taxed how much for what and for how long is in flux in Ohio and across the nation. A 1-cent increase in Ohio s sales tax, for example, kicked
Under revised overtime rules proposed by the Bush administration on March 31, more than 350,000 Ohio workers, some who earn as little as $22,100 a year, could be ineligible for extra pay when they work over 40 hours a week. “Eliminating the Right to Overtime Pay,” released nationally by the
