{"id":166489,"date":"2023-05-25T21:52:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T02:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=166489"},"modified":"2023-05-25T21:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T02:52:34","slug":"van-wert-county-has-low-jobless-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/05\/25\/van-wert-county-has-low-jobless-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert County has low jobless rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; The latest figures from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services show Van Wert County had one of the state\u2019s lowest employment rates in the state in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert County\u2019s jobless rate was 2.4 percent, tied for sixth lowest with Auglaize, Wayne and Delaware counties, and well below the statewide average of 3.7 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mercer County had Ohio\u2019s lowest unemployment rate last month, just 1.9 percent. Putnam County\u2019s jobless rate was 2.3 percent, while Paulding County came in at 2.8 percent. Allen County had the area\u2019s highest unemployment rate, 3.8 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state\u2019s highest unemployment rate was in Monroe County, 5.0 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff COLUMBUS &#8212; The latest figures from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services show Van Wert County had one of the state\u2019s lowest employment rates in the state in April. Van Wert County\u2019s jobless rate was 2.4 percent, tied for sixth lowest with Auglaize, Wayne and Delaware counties, and well below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 21:30:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166490,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166489\/revisions\/166490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}