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Study: Ohio In Top Three States For Job Losses This Year

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Ohio has the third-highest number of job losses of any state so far this year, according to an analysis by the executive firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas.  Ohio has lost more than 23-thousand jobs this year, behind  California and Texas. Spokesperson Andrew Challenger says steel and auto job losses were most prevalent.

Challenger says the retail sector has also see job losses.

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Challenger says cost-cutting, closing stores and company restructurings are the three biggest reasons why jobs were lost.   
 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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