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Ohio unemployment unchanged at 9.1%
by Rick Rouan
Friday, October 21, 2011 

Ohio posted a 9.1 percent unemployment in September, which was unchanged from August but down from last year’s 9.8 percent, the state’s Department of Job and Family Services reported Friday. 

That rate is consistent with nationwide unemployment, which stayed at 9.1 percent in August and September, the department said. 

The number of jobless workers dropped to 534,000 in September from 536,000 in August. In September 2010, the state reported that 577,000 Ohioans were unemployed. 

Since last September, the greatest job gains have occurred in the educational and health services sector and in the professional and business service sector. Construction and mining and logging also gained jobs over the previous year, the department said. 

The Dayton-area unemployment situation improved in the most recent figures. In August, the local jobless rate fell to 9.4 percent, down from 10 percent in July and 10.3 percent in August 2010. 

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