Ohio's unemployment rate reached 11.1 percent in June, up from 10.8 percent a month earlier, and the state lost an additional 33,000 jobs during the month, state job data released this morning show.
That's the highest jobless rate since August 1983, when the state had 11.2 percent unemployment.
The U.S. unemployment rate for June was 9.5 percent, up from 9.4 percent in May.
"Ohio's labor market continued to weaken in June," said Douglas Lumpkin, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
The state has lost 279,000 total jobs during the past year, including 134,000 manufacturing jobs, in what officials have described as the worst recession since the Great Depression.
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