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State Sees Minimal Increase In Monthly Jobless Numbers

Ohio's unemployment rate for July is 4.6 percent, an increase of one-tenth of a point from June. 

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services says non-farm payrolls rose by 76 hundred in July to a revised 5.6 million. Ohio had 265 thousand unemployed workers last month, up by six-thousand from June. Ohio gained jobs last month in sectors including manufacturing, leisure and hospitality, and educational and health services. Ohio lost jobs in the information sector, as well as the professional and business services sector. The U.S. unemployment rate for July is 3.9 percent. 

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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