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Manufacturing Falls in Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania in April
by Alan Barber and Dean Baker , 05/23/2017
Construction down in all rust belt states except Wisconsin
The Ohio Blue Collar Jobs Report: May 2017
by Hannah Halbert , 05/17/2017
Ohio’s recovery has been a slow slog since 2009. The state has added jobs, but has grown by a very meager 1.9 percent. That sluggish growth has not been enough to pull large numbers of workers back into the labor market. Ohio is still 200,000 workers short of its pre-recession labor force. Although some regions […]
Growth in Blue Collar Jobs Slows In April
by Matt Sedlar , 05/05/2017
As noted in this month’s CEPR Jobs Byte, the national unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent in April. The establishment survey reported that the economy added 211,000 jobs. Roughly offsetting revisions to the prior two months’ job growth brings the average for the last three months to 174,000.