Ohio in May had the fifth-highest unemployment in the United States. The people behind state programs that are supposed to create jobs aren’t taking credit for Ohio’s relatively high jobless rate. The ...

OHIO — Ohio’s unemployment rate hit 5% in July 2025, up from 4.9% in June, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Despite the increase in the unemployment rate, Ohio’s ...

Fewer Ohioans filed for unemployment benefits last week, though the number of continued claims rose slightly, according to new data from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS).

For half a century, Ohio has failed to maintain a solvent unemployment fund, and now lawmakers are debating two starkly different approaches to fix it—with one option placing the burden squarely on ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — According to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, the state has the sixth-worst unemployment rate in the nation. Currently, the national unemployment rate is 4.1%; ...

COLUMBUS— A contract employee working for Ohio’s unemployment system improperly released more than $100,000 in fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits and collected nearly $19,000 in benefits she ...