{"id":170511,"date":"2023-09-22T03:48:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T08:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=170511"},"modified":"2023-09-22T03:48:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T08:48:28","slug":"local-jobless-rate-below-state-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/09\/22\/local-jobless-rate-below-state-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Local jobless rate below state average"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio\u2019s unemployment rate was 3.4 percent in August, up from 3.3 percent in July, according to new figures released by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert County\u2019s jobless rate was slightly below the statewide average, coming in at 3.2 percent. Mercer County had Ohio\u2019s lowest unemployment rate in August, 2.5 percent, while Putnam County was fourth lowest at 2.7 percent. Auglaize County had the state\u2019s sixth lowest jobless rate at 3.1 percent. Paulding County\u2019s August employment rate was 3.3 percent and Allen County was above the state average, 4.1 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ohio\u2019s highest jobless rate in August was in Jefferson County, 5.5 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio\u2019s unemployment rate was 3.4 percent in August, up from 3.3 percent in July, according to new figures released by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Van Wert County\u2019s jobless rate was slightly below the statewide average, coming in at 3.2 percent. Mercer County had Ohio\u2019s lowest unemployment [&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-170511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 10:26:06","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\/170511","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=170511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170512,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170511\/revisions\/170512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}