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Weekly Jobless Claims In Ohio Decline

The Labor Department says the number of weekly applications for unemployment insurance benefits in Ohio fell by nearly 26-hundred last week due to fewer layoffs in manufacturing.Nationally, claims fell by 5-thousand to a seasonally adjusted 366-thousand. The Department says U.S. employers added an average of 200-thousand jobs a month from November through 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.