CENTRAL OHIO -- The economic slowdown has hit the Buckeye state hard. Hundreds of thousands of Ohioans are out of work, even more are struggling to pay their bills and the local economy is dwindling.
Governor Ted Strickland talked one-on-one with NBC 4 Friday and said our state is headed for even darker times than it's experiencing now -- unless the federal government can bailout Ohio.
NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported on where the state's growing unemployment rate stood.
In October, Ohio's unemployment rate reached 7.3 percent, which was higher than September and nearly 2 percent higher than one year ago.
A passionate Strickland gave some of his most blunt words yet on the state of Ohio's economy.
"We are in for a period of time that none of us want to witness," Strickland.
Strickland, at a Rickenbacker warehouse to unveil a new state program, claimed without some type of federal program similar to the bailout for the financial industry, the worst of times have only begun.
There are numbers to back up his fears, too.
Unemployment continued to climb last month, and in the past year 9,100 Ohioans have lost their jobs.
A local moving company told Bowersock more and more Ohioans are moving out of the state.
"There seems to be more opportunity in the southern region; so there are more job opportunities," Brian Brooks of E.E. Ward Moving and Storage.
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