John Kasich touts job recovery, noting Ohio has regained private jobs lost in recession
Mar 12, 2015 12:00 AM
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Friday, March 6, 2015
John Kasich touts job recovery, noting Ohio has regained private jobs lost in recession
By Robert Higgs
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Gov. John Kasich, while professing that it wasn't a day to crow, took time Friday to note that new labor data showed the state has recovered the private sector jobs lost during the great recession.
Data released Friday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services showed that the state gained 352,000 private sector jobs from January 2011, the month Kasich took office, to now.
Ohio's unemployment rate remained at 5.1 percent, but more than 25,000 jobs were created in January.
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