{"id":35877,"date":"2013-03-09T08:08:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T13:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=35877"},"modified":"2013-03-11T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T11:52:00","slug":"ohio-unemployment-rate-for-january-shows-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/03\/09\/ohio-unemployment-rate-for-january-shows-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio jobless rate increases in January"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio Dept. of Job and Family Services news<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>After several months of decreasing unemployment number, the state\u2019s jobless rate increased three-tenths of a percent in January.<\/p>\n

Ohio’s unemployment rate was 7.0 percent in January, up from 6.7 percent in December, according to data released Friday morning by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS).\u00a0 Ohio\u2019s nonfarm wage and salary employment increased 3,800 over the month from the revised 5,175,000 in December to 5,178,800 in January.<\/p>\n

The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in January was 399,000, up from 385,000 in December.\u00a0 The number of unemployed has decreased by 42,000 in the past 12 months from 441,000.\u00a0 The December unemployment rate for Ohio was down from 7.6 percent in January 2012.<\/p>\n

The U.S. unemployment rate for January was 7.9 percent, up from 7.8 percent in December, and down from 8.3 percent in January 2012.<\/p>\n

Total Nonagricultural Wage and Salary Employment <\/strong>(seasonally adjusted)<\/p>\n

Ohio\u2019s nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased 3,800 over the month, from a revised 5,175,000 in December 2012 to 5,178,800 in January 2013, according to the latest business establishment survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor (Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>) in cooperation with ODJFS.<\/p>\n

Goods-producing industries, at 851,400 added 3,900 jobs from December.\u00a0 Construction (+2,100), manufacturing (+1,600), and mining and logging (+200) grew over the month.\u00a0 Private service-providing industries, at 3,578,800, gained 800 jobs in the same time period.<\/p>\n

Job gains occurred in educational and health services (+8,000), information (+1,600), and other services (+600). Job losses were seen in trade, transportation, and utilities (-4,300), financial activities (-3,200), professional and business services (-1,200), and leisure and hospitality (-700). Government employment, at 748,600, declined 900.\u00a0 Decreases in state government (-1,800) and federal government (-400) outweighed growth in local government (+1,300).<\/p>\n

From January 2012 to January 2013, nonagricultural wage and salary employment rose 29,100.\u00a0 \u2028Goods-producing industries increased 4,300 over the year.\u00a0 Manufacturing added 9,300 jobs through gains in durable goods (+5,200) and nondurable goods (+4,100).\u00a0 Mining and logging added 200 jobs while construction declined 5,200.\u00a0 Private service-providing industries added 35,900 jobs.<\/p>\n

Gains were posted in educational and health services (+17,000), leisure and hospitality (+8,900), trade, transportation, and utilities (+5,200), professional and business services (+2,900), other services (+1,800), and financial activities (+1,000). Over-the-year declines were seen in information (-900). Government employment decreased 11,100 through losses in local government (-5,800), state government (-3,600), and federal government (-1,700).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ohio Dept. of Job and Family Services news After several months of decreasing unemployment number, the state\u2019s jobless rate increased three-tenths of a percent in January. Ohio’s unemployment rate was 7.0 percent in January, up from 6.7 percent in December, according to data released Friday morning by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services […]<\/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-35877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 04:43:27","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\/35877","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=35877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}