Staff report

The state’s unemployment rate dropped 0.4 percentage points in September, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported Thursday.

The agency said the rate was 4.8% for the month, down from 5% in August. Ohio’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment decreased 6,200 over the month, from a revised 5,730,000 in August to 5,723,800 in September.

For September, the number of unemployed workers was 287,000, down from 295,000 in August. The number of unemployed has increased by 26,000 in the past 12 months from 261,000. The September unemployment rate for Ohio increased 0.4 percentage points from 4.4% in September 2024.

The U.S. unemployment rate for September was 4.4%, up from 4.3% in August and up from 4.1% in September 2024.

In September, the labor force particip

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