The Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services released the October 2015 data on employment and unemployment on Friday and the overall job figures for the state in October were favorable, with a robust gain of 30,800 jobs.

Cleveland-based economic analyst George Zeller noted that today’s statistics show the recovery was driven by a robust increase of 5,800 jobs in Manufacturing and another robust increase of 5,800 jobs in Construction. “That growth in blue collar Ohio employment drove the robust overall Ohio job growth figure for October, obviously a very good thing,” Zeller said today via email.

“But, Ohio’s […]