April Unemployment Rates Decrease in Mahoning Valley
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The Mahoning Valley’s unemployment rate in April fell by more than half a percentage point from March, and was comparable to a year ago.
Monthly data released Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services put the unemployment rate for the Ohio-only portion of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman Ohio-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area -- Mahoning and Trumbull counties -- at 7.6% last month, down from 8.3% in March and the same as April 2012’s 7.6% rate. The April unemployment rate for the entire MSA, which encompasses the two Ohio counties and Mercer County in Pennsylvania, was slightly higher, 7.7%, while the March rate and April 2012 rates were the same as for Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
Mahoning and Trumbull counties has matching 7.6% unemployment rates in April, down from 8.3% for both as well in March. In April 2012, Mahoning’s unemployment rate was 7.8% while Trumbull’s was 7.4%. In Columbiana County, the unemployment rate in April was 7.5%, down from 8.2% a month earlier and down from 7.9% in April 2012.
Youngstown’s unemployment rate in April was 9.4%, down half a point from 9.9% in March and down from 9.7% in April 2012. Warren’s unemployment rate was 8.3% in April, down from 8.6% in March and compared with 8.4% in April 2012.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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