{"id":177351,"date":"2024-03-27T03:31:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T08:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=177351"},"modified":"2024-03-27T03:31:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T08:31:59","slug":"jobless-rate-lower-than-state-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/03\/27\/jobless-rate-lower-than-state-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless rate lower than state average"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Van Wert County\u2019s February unemployment rate came in slightly under the statewide average, according to new figures provided by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The county\u2019s jobless rate was 3.5 percent last month, compared to Ohio\u2019s average of 3.7 percent. Once again, Mercer County had the state\u2019s lowest unemployment rate, 2.9 percent. Rates in other surrounding counties were 3.3 percent in Auglaize County, 3.5 percent in Putnam County, 3.7 percent in Paulding County, and 4.3 percent in Allen County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff COLUMBUS &#8212; Van Wert County\u2019s February unemployment rate came in slightly under the statewide average, according to new figures provided by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The county\u2019s jobless rate was 3.5 percent last month, compared to Ohio\u2019s average of 3.7 percent. Once again, Mercer County had the state\u2019s [&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-177351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 18:25:26","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\/177351","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=177351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177352,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177351\/revisions\/177352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}