Unemployment up in Ohio

[OzarkDem]

But somehow the news media spins it as good news. One more nail in the Ohio GOP's coffin....

"Ohio's unemployment rate shot to 5.5% in April, up half a percentage point from March, as more people jumped into the job market. The number of unemployed workers in April, defined as people jobless and actively looking for work, hit 327,000, up from 294,000 in March.

But another number boded well for the state. Nonfarm employment posted its biggest monthly gain in more than six years -- adding 18,500 jobs -- in a sign that Ohio's labor market may be gradually reviving..."


http://www.cleveland.com/weblogs/business/index.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_business/archives/2006_05.html#143802

[HughBeaumont]

1. Look who runs the PD -

Good ol' Alex Machaskee. Bushbot to the very end. In 2004, this paper had the GALL to write about Honda building a plant in Ohio and spinning it as "offshoring isn't so bad after all, John Kerry"; completely insensitive to the fact that a) it's not the same thing at ALL, and b) the very practice is why Cuyahoga County accounted for nearly 10% of Ohio's lost jobs during the Bewsh administration.

You ought to see how many totally softball articles about Crackwell appear in this paper every week, and you hear almost NOTHING about Strickland. I mean, who does this guy think his audience is, suburban Cincinatti? Alex, take a look where your PAPER resides. Ya think heavily BLUE Cuyahoga County is going to somehow sway to that homophobe hate-baiter BootBlackwell? He suppressed the AA vote in 2004. Nobody forgets things like this. Alex cannot retire soon enough.

[OzarkDem]

4. Then they spun the loss of Maytag jobs

When plants closed in Iowa and some jobs were rumored to be coming to Indiana or Ohio, it was suddenly good news. No mention of the Iowa jobs lost and the fact that increased production at other plants wouldn't make up the difference.

Supposedly the PD has a new publisher coming on board, from the St. Louis Post Dispatch. I don't know much about him, but hope he's an improvement. Something tells me Machaskee won't be very far away.

[HughBeaumont]

7. And it's in Central and Southern Ohio, as if that does NE Ohio any good.

All Maytag did was fire 4500 workers and the PD spun it as Ohio benefitting. What they might have mentioned in the fine print was that it wasn't a full absorbtion (Ohio would only get 1500 of those jobs, in Marion and Clyde) and also the real reason Maytag did it - their Whirlpool plants here are non-union (read: saving the fatcats a lotta cash and commie headaches like benefits).

Not to mention a lost job is a lost job no matter WHO gains it. There just went more Iowa factory workers who'll have to start life over in their 40s and 50s with no college. This scenario is repeating itself all over the country.

[1932]

2. "boded"??? Not only do they lie about the numbers, they make up words.

Isn't the past tense of "bode" "bided"?

[Imagevision]

3. Unemployment up in Ohio? -- says who? Blackwell...?

[AlamoDemoc]

5. Ohio's lower labor low skill market is booming

because of recent immigrants from Africa, and South-East Asia settling in throughout the state.....cities like Columbus, and other northern Ohio cities are now for the first time experiencing higher demand on lower labor skilled workers. Tax breaks are giving to the many upcoming manufacturers to hire the immigrants in order for the state to recuperate expenses and housing benefits given to the immigrants from the state budget.

[AusGail]

6. So thats where John Howard got his idea

At the moment the Howard Government is condoning employers importing Asians to work for a fraction of the rate Australians would work for. With their new industrial relations law, they have succeeded in creating the working poor. Now they are selling their jobs to the lowest bidder. I am not anti-Asian but I am pro-Australian for Australian jobs for a fair wage.

[OzarkDem]

9. Yet some Ohio unions are siding w/ the GOP

Talked to a Dem candidate last night for State Rep.(great guy, very well qualified)

He said the building trades unions are refusing to endorse him, and are leaning towards the GOP candidate. They've done this before - selling their endorsement to the GOP candidate or not endorsing the Dem in exchange for getting state construction contracts for union workers.

Interestingly enough, their union leader in this area, Loree Soggs, serves as the Dem representative on the Cuyahoga County Board of Elelctions.

The GOP is pulling out the stops on dirty tricks this year, and sometimes there are crooked DINO's willing to help them.

[primative1]

8. People Jumped Into Labor market?

How does the governent determine who has "jumped into" the labor market and who remains on the sidelines timidly scanning the waters? Is this test merly subjective or can people organize themselves and "jump in" all at once?