COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio's unemployment has risen to another new 25-year high as the state continued to lose jobs in April.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
Ohio's unemployment rate was 10.2 percent in April, up from 9.7 percent in March, according to data released this morning by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
“Ohio's labor market continued to weaken in April,” ODJFS Director Douglas Lumpkin said. “Recurring losses in both manufacturing and construction along with additional losses in the service-providing industries attributed to the unemployment rate increasing to 10.2 percent.”
The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in April was 608,000, up from 578,000 in March.
The number of unemployed has increased by 235,000 in the past 12 months from 373,000.
The April unemployment rate for Ohio was up from 6.2 percent in April 2008.
The U.S. unemployment rate for April was 8.9 percent, up from 8.5 percent in March.
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