Ohio still shedding 2008 jobs

It’s bad enough that Ohio shed so many jobs in February that the unemployment rate hit a 25-year high of 9.4 percent, according to figures released Friday. But the state also revised job losses for 2008, with those more accurate numbers showing a sharply higher rise in the total unemployed in Ohio than previously reported. And all of that resulted in Ohio’s job-creation rate lagging behind the national rate for a record 156 consecutive months, or 13 years in a row, according to a Cleveland economist who tracks…

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