Ohio jobs fall in November
Ohio’s loss of 12,000 jobs in November puts the state’s year-over-year growth rate at 0.4 percent. Nationally, jobs grew by 1.7 percent over the same time.
Ohio riding a job-growth seesaw
Ohio lost more than 8,000 jobs in August, a loss that erases a small gain in July and leaves the state down more than 13,000 jobs since our 2013 peak in May.
New Normal? April job growth leaves Ohio with almost no yearly gain
Ohio added just 7,600 jobs in April, nowhere near the growth needed to fix Ohio’s slow-growth economy. The state needs 235,000 jobs just to make up for losses in the last recession. If the current job growth rate becomes Ohio’s new normal, the state is in deep trouble.
Ohio job growth trails nation since 2005, analysis finds
Back to full report Download press release (1 pg) Unemployment rate lower because Ohioans have stopped looking for jobs Since Ohio policymakers passed large income-tax cuts in 2005, Ohio has lost ground compared to the nation in total job growth, according to a new analysis by Policy Matters Ohio. From June 2005, when the tax-cut […]
JobWatch: Ohio job growth trails nation since 2005 tax overhaul
From June 2005, when the tax-cut phase-in began, to March 2013, Ohio lost 4.4 percent of its jobs, while the U.S. as a whole added 1.2 percent. During this period, Ohio has seen the fourth-worst job growth among states, losing 238,000 jobs.
JobWatch: Ohio job market nearly flat over past year
Job growth leveled off in the second half of 2012 — Ohio has only added 2,700 jobs over the past year, growing at a very weak 0.1 percent. A private-sector gain of 16,900 jobs has been nearly erased by the 14,200 jobs lost in the public sector. Most of those public job losses happened at […]
JobWatch: Growth strong in February, more improvement needed to overcome weak 2012
The first two months of 2013 are an improvement from the second half of 2012. But Ohio needs several more months of five-figure growth to regain momentum
JobWatch: Growth remains slow, data revisions suggest weakening recovery
The revised data suggests that the slowing trend is continuing, with only 5,600 jobs added since July. The same time period in 2011 showed an increase of 49,300 jobs.
JobWatch: Precarious recovery for Ohio
For immediate release Contact: Hannah Halbert, 614.221.4505 policymattersohio.org/jobwatch-jan2012 Unemployment drops in December, but so do jobs, labor force Ohio’s unemployment rate continued to decline as 2012 ended, but the state also saw a drop in both the labor force and the number of jobs, according to two surveys released today by the Ohio Department […]
Precarious recovery: Ohio’s final jobs report for 2012 shows decline in unemployment, but also in jobs, labor force
Today’s numbers show the precarious state of the economic recovery in Ohio. The drop in unemployment was caused as much by a shrinking labor force as by a decline in joblessness.
Modest gains for Ohio, Congress must act to protect recovery
For immediate releaseContact: Hannah Halbert, 614.397.6080policymattersohio.org/jobwatch-dec2012 Ohio’s unemployment rate fell to 6.8 percent and the number of jobs grew by 1,600 in November, according to surveys released today by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. “Ohio’s job market is moving in the right direction,” said Hannah Halbert, workforce researcher at Policy Matters Ohio. “But […]
Ohio job market shows modest gains, but Congress must act to protect fragile state recovery
Ohio’s job market is moving in the right direction, but the state still has a long way to go, and inaction at the federal level could put our recovery in jeopardy.