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Ohio Jobless Claims Rose Last Month

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published June 20, 2013 at 12:26 PM EDT

The Labor Department says claims for unemployment insurance benefits in Ohio rose by more than 23 hundred last week due to layoffs in the manufacturing, finance, communications and service sectors.Nationally, claims rose by 18-thousand to a seasonally adjusted 354 thousand. Since January, applications have fallen by 6 percent, suggesting employers are cutting fewer jobs.
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Jim Letizia
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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