The state’s stretch of double-digit joblessness started with a 10 percent unemployment rate in April 2009.
The new report showed that employment this April increased 37,300 from a revised 5,004,800 in March to 5,042,100 in April.
The report showed that the number of unemployed workers in Ohio in April was 652,000, down from 656,000 in March. During the past 12 months, the number of unemployed has gone up by 50,000, from 602,000.
Ohio’s unemployment rate continued to top the national jobless rate, which was 9.9 percent in April, up from 9.7 percent in March.
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