Ohio jobless rate down in first month of 2018

Ohio jobless rates dropped in the first month of 2018.

The state’s unemployment rate was 4.7 percent in January, down from 4.9 percent in December. The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in January was 271,000, down 10,000 from 281,000 in December.

Ohio’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased 12,100 over the month, from a revised 5,534,300 in December 2017 to 5,546,400 in January 2018, according to the latest business establishment survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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