Ohio Is Partying Like It’s 2000
Employment in the state is finally back near the peak of 18 years ago. But a lot depends on where you live and what you do.
Ohio’s looking better these days. Mostly.
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
There were an estimated 5,625,700 nonfarm payroll jobs in Ohio in August, according to (seasonally adjusted) data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s just 10,900 jobs short of the all-time Ohio record set in … May 2000.
Sometime this fall, then, Ohio employment looks set to finally set another record. That is in part an indication of just how awful the first decade of this millennium was for the Buckeye State — only neighboring Michigan had it worse, with employment in August still 256,300 short of its 2000 peak. But it’s also a sign that the current economic expansion has been, relatively speaking, pretty great for the nation’s seventh-most-populous state.