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Ohio Jobless Claims Increase

The Labor Department says weekly applications for unemployment insurance benefits in Ohio rose by 19-hundred last week due to layoffs in transportation and manufacturing.Nationally, claims fell by 23-thousand to a seasonally adjusted 369-thousand. The department says the figures appear to have stabilized after being distorted in the previous two weeks by seasonal adjustment problems.  Applications have fluctuated between 360-thousand and 390-thousand since January.

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.