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The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported that the state's unemployment rate was 3.6% in May, down from 3.7% in April. Nonagricultural wage and salary employment in the state increased 6,600 over the month, to 5,614,600 in May from April's revised level of 5,608,000.

Law Enforcement News LAPD Officer’s Alleged Killer Stands Trial Again After Conviction In 1983 Case Was Tossed A little more than four decades have passed since Paul Verna’s final day as a police officer. The 35-year-old motorcycle cop thought he was making a routine traffic stop on June 2, 1983, prosecutors said. But he had pulled over a vehicle occupied by four people who’d

While he was being arrested the man spat, cussed and threatened to kill the people involved, police said.

Policy Matters Ohio celebrates May Day with pro-labor platform Policy Matters Ohio today released a policy plan that would build on the recovery of Ohio’s jobs to nearly pre-COVID levels, strengthen workplace protections and improve conditions for working people throughout the state. A New Way Forward identifies 10 pro-worker principles that would...

With a 1,300-hp Supercharged LS7 and Expert Metal Work, the Fenix Camaro received the Pro Touring and Outstanding Street Machine at the 2023 Grand National Roadster Show.

'We have seen this before. Government jobs have been slower to recover from previous recessions as well,' said Michael Shields, a workforce researcher at Policy Matters Ohio.

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[image:2] Chair Edwards, Vice Chair LaRe, Ranking Member Sweeney, and members of the Committee. I’m Hannah Halbert, I’m privileged to be the Executive Director of Policy Matters Ohio, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute with a mission to make Ohio a more vibrant, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable place for all who live...

$2.6 billion: In the previous edition of Saturday Stats, we noted three major flaws in House Bill 1, any one of which should be enough to make Ohioans tell our reps to vote against it. This week, State Policy Fellow Guille Bervejillo, PhD, identified more reasons to toss HB 1,...

Seasonally adjusted data released by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services on Friday, March 24, shows Ohio had 5,575,500 total jobs as of February 2023 and an unemployment rate of 3.9%, which is down from 4% in January.