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9,900: The number of jobs Ohio employers added last month. In our monthly JobWatch report, Researcher Michael Shields wrote that Ohio is recovering jobs about a third as quickly as the nation. Our state’s unemployment rate of 5.4% is higher than the national rate of 4.8%. More proof that Ohioans...
Updated: 11:28 AM EST February 26, 2021 TOLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo-Lucas County Health Department is teaming up with community leaders to better distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to people of color. Health Commissioner Dr. Eric Zgodzinski said Friday just 5.56 percent of the Black population in Lucas County has received the vaccine. His goal is 80 percent, but in order to achieve that number, barriers must be broken down. Ohio Rep. Paula Hicks-Hudson (D-Toledo), Toledo NAACP President Rev. Dr. W.L. Perryman, Jr., and Lucas County Commissioners President Tina Skeldon-Wozniak joi...