Cincinnati unemployment rate drops to 8.7%

Greater Cincinnati?s economy regained some of the jobs it lost in July, employing 5,200 additional people in August while the unemployment rate improved to 8.7 percent. The local economy?s employment rose to 997,200 in August, a gain of 0.5 percent, according to newly released Ohio Department of Job and Family Services data. It came closer to returning to June levels, when the local economy employed just more than 1 million. But local jobs slumped by 8,000 in July. Those figures are not adjusted for seasonality...

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