County, City Jobless Rates Post Declines in April
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- County and city unemployment rates posted declined in April, down by at least a percentage point from the month before.
The Mahoning Valley’s two largest cities saw their unemployment rates drop by 2 or more percentage points from a year earlier and the three counties saw declines of nearly 2 points over the same period, reports the U.S. Labor Department.
Youngstown’s unemployment rate in April was 7.3 percent, down from 8.3% in March and from 9.7% in April 2013. Warren’s 6.6% rate was down from 7.6% in March and from 8.6% in April 2013.
Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties all posted identical 6.0% unemployment rates in April, down from 7.9% in April 2013 for both Mahoning and Trumbull counties and from 7.7% for Columbiana County. In March, Trumbull’s unemployment rate was 7.2 percent, Mahoning’s 7.1% and Columbiana’s 7.0%.
For the metropolitan statistical area that encompasses Mahoning and Trumbull counties in Ohio and Mercer County, Pa., the April unemployment rate was 5.8%, down from 7.0% in March and from 7.8% in April 2013. For the Ohio-only portion of the MSA, the unemployment rate last month was 6.0%, down from 7.1% the prior month and down from 7.9% a year earlier.
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