Region's Unemployment Rates Jump in June
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Unemployment in the metropolitan area that covers the Mahoning Valley in June tied for the second-highest rate in Ohio.
Unemployment in the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which covers Mahoning and Trumbull counties in Ohio and Mercer County in western Pennsylvania, was 8.3%, the same as the jobless rate with the Toledo MSA and second to the Steubenville-Weirton MSA’s 9.6%. Youngstown’s 10.6% unemployment rate, the same as in Lorain, was exceeded by East Cleveland’s 11.4%.
Area unemployment rates in June jumped by half a percentage point or more from the month before, according to data released Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Mahoning County’s unemployment rate last month was 8.3%, up from 7.7% in May and up from 7.9% in June 2012. Columbiana County’s unemployment rate was 8.2% in June, up half a point from May’s 7.7% and up from 8.1% in June 2012. In Trumbull County, the unemployment rate also rose by half a point over the month, from 7.6% in May to 8.1 % last month, down slightly from June 2012’s 8.2% rate.
The Youngstown-Warren MSA’s 8.3% unemployment rate in June was up from 7.8% in May, and matched the June 2012 rate. The Ohio-only portion of the metro area’s 8.2% June rate, down slightly from the metro area as a whole, was up from 7.7% in May and above June 2012’s 8.0% rate.
Youngstown’s 10.6% June rate was up nearly a full point from 9.7% in May, and was half a point higher than June 2012’s 10.1%. Warren’s 9.0% unemployment rate last month was up from 8.2% the month before but down from 9.6% in June 2012.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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