Ohio high in 2Q mass layoff ranking

[UpInArms]

http://dayton.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2004/08/23/daily23.html?jst=b_ln_hl

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The Buckeye State saw 82 mass layoffs resulting in 11,246 defunct jobs in the second quarter. In the same period of 2003, 6,308 jobs were lost in 52 mass layoff events. Ohio saw the largest year- over-year increase in job cuts among the states, the bureau said.

The bureau defines a mass layoff as 50 or more jobs cut from a single location within 30 days. Ohio had the fifth-largest number of job cuts from mass layoffs in the second quarter, following California, Illinois, Florida and Pennsylvania.

Nationwide, employers cut 233,852 jobs in 1,233 mass layoffs in the second quarter, compared with 368,273 job cuts in 1,799 mass layoff events in the same quarter of last year.

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[zbdent]

1. And of course the Repuke-sucking afternoon drive talk host

would still say that when a congressman said that the economy was in a horrible recession, he was "lying" . . .