After several months of steady but slight declines, Ohioâs unemployment rate remained unchanged in July.   The stateâs jobless rate stands at 7.2 percent â the same as it was in June. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services says Ohio  gained about 11,000 jobs last month. The biggest gains were in educational and health services while the biggest job loss occurred in government. The number of unemployed workers in Ohio was 418,000, about 2,000 less than June. Ohioâs jobless rate still remains below the US rate of 8.3 percent and lower than Ohioâs unemployment rate was last year. Last July Ohioâs rate stood at 8.9 percent. For a detailed look at the figures, click here.
Mike Thompson spends much of his time correcting people who mispronounce the name of his hometown – Worcester, Massachusetts. Mike studied broadcast journalism at Syracuse University when he was not running in circles – as a distance runner on the SU track team.