Great news for Cuyahoga County and the Cle metro area.  Expect the 8.6% unemployment rate to go even lower Q1 2011.

The Rust Belt Has Arrived

Interest in cities that have fallen on hard times in the Midwest and Northeast brings new cachet to living and working in the Rust Belt.

Tod Newcombe | February 2011

 

Step aside Boston, New York City, San Francisco and Seattle. Sorry, but you’re just not cool anymore. These days, you need to have crumbling roads, triple-decker apartment buildings, old-fashioned neighborhood bars and lots of rust to gain any hipster cred. When Anthony Bourdain, host of the trendy travel and food show No Reservations, passes up Tuscany, Provence and Barcelona to visit Baltimore, Buffalo and Detroit, you know the Rust Belt has arrived.

 

The "rust is chic" movement has been around for a while, but thanks to blogs and online magazines, such as RustWire.com, a certain fascination with places that have fallen on hard times like the Rust Belt -- which stretches from the Midwest through the mid-Atlantic and up into the Northeast -- has taken hold. Part of it is the scruffy, industrial look. It may also be a rejection of cities with gleaming condo towers, bistros and boutiques that were once so trendy yet now seem so frothy and fake in the wake of the economic meltdown.

 

Full story at: http://www.governing.com/columns/urban-notebook/Rust-Belt-Arrived.html#

 

ORDC Commissioners OK Rail Upgrades for Lorain’s U.S. Steel

Plant Expansion and Lancaster to Logan Rail Line

Grant Approved for Historic Dennison Depot Mobility Access

 

Columbus (Thursday, March 10, 2011) – Two track projects that will help support the $93-million expansion of U.S. Steel’s Lorain Tubular Operations (LTO) and help create 90 new jobs and preserve 523 existing jobs have been given the go-ahead by ORDC Commissioners.  The Lorain plant is ramping up to produce pipe needed for natural gas exploration and drilling, most notably in the Marcellus shale fields of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio.

 

The two track projects at the LTO plant site will enable more efficient movement of incoming and outgoing freight car loads, as well as to handle an anticipated increase in demand for steel pipe. The plant currently has rail operations that handle up to 20,000 to 30,000 tons a month, or about 220 to 330 rail cars, of inbound pieces of steel called “rounds” that are processed into seamless pipes.

 

Lorain Mayor Tony Krasienko calls this “great news for the City of Lorain, U.S. Steel and the State of Ohio.  ORDC’s assistance will greatly improve operations at U.S Steel and enable them to grow both business and jobs for an employer that has been a cornerstone of this community since 1903.”

 

On the heels of approving a $150,000 grant for the first of three phases of a major track rehabilitation of the Indiana & Ohio’s Lancaster to Logan rail line at their January meeting, Commissioners accelerated a second phase of the project with $175,000 grant to leverage matching railroad funds for rebuilding this important Southeast Ohio rail line.  The line currently serves 3 rail-dependent shippers that employ 259 people.  This investment in the rail line will help support further investment and expansion of business that could create between 30 and 50 new jobs.

 

The Logan Line project will bring the rail corridor up to Federal Railroad Administration standards for Class II (25 MPH) operations, enabling the line to handle bigger, heavier rail cars and loads and improving reliable service to customers along the line.  Major shippers on the line include Smead Manufacturing (paper products), General Electric (glass tubes) and Keynes Brothers (wheat milling).  Both Smead and GE are making major investments in their facilities.  In addition, Logan area officials are working to bring new business to the rail-connected former Goodyear plant and a 13-acre industrial development site.

 

“Our local rail system is integral to keeping many local businesses competitive and attracting new businesses to our region”, says Fairfield County Economic Development Director Shane Farnsworth.  “We have seen an increase in the use of rail for shipping and receiving and the improvements to the Logan rail line will allow our region to continue to serve the needs of our local businesses.” 

 

Logan-Hocking County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Bill Rinehart also sees the project as strengthening a tool for attracting new business and jobs.  “I just got back from a renewable energy trade show and 75 to 80 percent of the companies I spoke with asked about how strong our rail system is in Ohio”, says Rinehart.  “A stronger rail line is a tremendous boost for our local economy by making us more attractive to companies like this, as well as giving our existing employers more reliable and cost-effective shipping service at a time when fuel costs are such a big factor.”

 

Commissioners also voted to approve a modification to a grant agreement with Coshocton Ethanol, which is restarting production after an almost 2 year shutdown due to the economy.  The new agreement reduces the annual car-load requirements tied to original 2005 grant for track work and other rail improvements during the construction of the ethanol plant.  Modifying the agreement will facilitate the re-starting of the plant and the re-hiring of 41 employees to full-time jobs.

 

An $18,000 grant was also approved to assist the Dennison Depot Museum in building a ramp and wheelchair lift for easier access for people whose mobility is limited.  This ramp will enable greater access to the Museum’s popular annual “Polar Express” excursions during the Christmas holiday season.  In 2010, the Museum says around 30 passengers in wheelchairs had to be lifted by hand into the rail passenger cars.  The grant will allow the new ramp and lift to be built for the 2011 season.  The Museum says the excursion trains annually bring over $1.2-million dollars into the local economy.

 

Finally, the Commission approved a staff-recommendation for ORDC to assist the Ohio Department of Transportation in purchasing a small portion of right-of-way needed for a highway bridge replacement that is part of the multi-million dollar and multi-state CSX “National Gateway” intermodal corridor project.  The agreement will enable CSX to reimburse the cost of the right-of-way acquisition to ODOT through the ORDC.  The project will replace two bridge crossings at River Crossing Road and Pawnee Roads with a single bridge that will also meet the height requirements for CSX to operate double-stack container trains.

 

 

For more information contact:

Stu Nicholson, ORDC Communications,

at 614-644-0513 or

[email protected]

 

 

 

 

Renco gets Ohio Valley steel mills from Sevestral

Business First Columbus

Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 12:22pm EDT

 

Some steel operations in the Ohio Valley got a new owner Friday, when a subsidiary of Renco Group Inc. bought three steel-making companies from Russia’s OAO Severstal.

 

Newly formed RG Steel LLC closed the $1.2 billion deal that makes it the fourth-largest producer of flat rolled steel in the nation. The purchase gives the company steel mills in Warren and Wheeling, W.Va., as well as Sevestral’s sprawling steel works in Sparrows Point, Md. Included in the transaction are half stakes in Ohio Coatings Co., based in Yorkville, and a coke making operation in Follansbee, W.Va., owned by Mountain State Carbon LLC.

 

A news report in Weirton, W.Va., said iron and steel mills at the former Severstal Wheeling in Steubenville and Mingo Junction have been idle for nearly two years and there was no word whether they would be restarted.

 

Read more at: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2011/04/01/renco-gets-ohio-valley-steel-mills.html

Ohio Claims More "Fastest Growing Tech Cities" Than Any Other State

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ohio-claims-more-fastest-growing-tech-cities-than-any-other-state-119392449.html

Divided Ohio House passes budget full of cuts on heels of rosy revenue news

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio — As the Ohio House approved a budget Thursday that makes gouging cuts to schools, local governments and other programs, good news arrived that may ease some of the pain.

 

It came in the form of robust tax revenues for April that put Ohio on pace to have nearly $1 billion more than expected when fiscal 2011 wraps up June 30. As the budget deliberations move to the Senate, the extra money could soften the punishment meted out by the two-year spending plan.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/05/divided_ohio_house_passes_budg.html

Ohio 5th for Fortune 500 Companies

May 27, 2011 7:01 a.m.

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Buckeye State ranks fifth in the nation for Fortune 500 company headquarters. Ohio is home to a total of 27, an increase of four from last year.

 

Ohio is one of only two Midwest states that rank among the top five, sharing the spotlight with Illinois, which has 31 Fortune 500 companies.

 

The top 10 Fortune 500 companies in Ohio from first to 10th are Cardinal Health, Kroger, Procter & Gamble, Macy's, Nationwide, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Progressive, American Electric Power, Eaton and FirstEnergy.

 

READ MORE AT:

http://business-journal.com/ohio-th-for-fortune-companies-p19261-1.htm

^ That means nothing to me. We are not the 5th state for adding jobs which counts more than having f500 companies.

Sorry!

LOL!

 

Jeers! Jeers to the Fortune 500!

 

I'll take whatever bragging rights the press sees fit to publish for me.

Solar-energy firm expected to add 1,100 jobs near Mansfield

$275 million federal loan guarantee announced for Calisolar

Thursday, June 16, 2011  01:40 PM

Updated: Thursday, June 16, 2011 02:45 PM

By Tim Feran

 

The Columbus Dispatch

The Mansfield area could gain more than 1,000 permanent jobs as a result of a loan guarantee announced today that will allow an alternative-energy company to build a plant in the area.

 

The U.S. Department of Energy announced this afternoon that it is offering a $275 million loan guarantee to California-based alternative energy manufacturer Calisolar Inc. to expand its operations in Ontario, located just west of Mansfield in Richland County.

 

The manufacturer plans to build its new plant on the site of the former General Motors plant, creating nearly 1,100 permanent jobs and up to 1,000 construction jobs.

 

Read more at: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2011/06/16/thousand-solar-jobs-coming-to-mansfield-area.html?sid=101

I was wondering when we would hear something more about this, it seems like its been dragging on forever!

 

That would certainly be great news for Mansfield, especially in the wake of another plant closing (yesterday), Shilo co. 

Noozer, you beat me but I added it to my post in the Mansfield Business thread.

^ That means nothing to me. We are not the 5th state for adding jobs which counts more than having f500 companies.

 

Agreed. You know, Michigan ranks really high too (and they have two Fortune 10 companies).

America's Top States for Business 2011 - CNBC  (See http://www.cnbc.com/id/43381920)

 

 

Overall, Ohio ranked #23/50 (#1 is best).

 

 

In the Cost of Doing Business category (weighted 350/2,500 points), Ohio ranked #5.

 

In the Workforce category (weighted 350/2,500 points), Ohio ranked #50 (worst).

 

In the Quality of Life category (weighted 350/2,500 points), Ohio ranked #42.

 

In the Economy category (weighted 300/2,500 points), Ohio ranked #24.

 

In the Infrastructure & Transportation category (weighted 325/2,500 points), Ohio ranked #4.

 

In the Technology & Innovation category (weighted 225/2,500 points), Ohio ranked #15.

 

In the Education category (weighted 225/2,500 points), Ohio ranked #13.

 

In the Business Friendliness category (weighted 200/2,500 points), Ohio ranked #42.

 

In the Access to Capital category (weighted 100/2,500 points), Ohio ranked #21.

 

In the Cost of Living category (weighted 50/2,500 points), Ohio ranked #13.

 

(The weights only add up to 2,475--not 2,500).

 

-----

 

Moving Up The Rankings of Top States For Business  (See http://www.cnbc.com/id/43239531)

 

Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania can all make a good case for most-improved status in CNBC's Top States For Business 2011, but the calculations are more complicated this year because of the bi-annual re-weighting of the categories-and-points system.

 

Ohio moved up the most spots —11 — landing at 23rd....

 

...

 

Ohio added 219 points, even though its biggest improvement was in a category worth fewer points in 2011 than 2010. The Buckeye State jumped from 29th to 5th in cost of doing business (450 points in 2010 vs. 350 in 2011.) Still, a big improvement in that point-heavy category and another one, economy, certainly helped.

In the Workforce category (weighted 350/2,500 points), Ohio ranked #50 (worst).

 

What does "workforce" mean? diversity of skills, education levels, sufficient number of qualified bodies....?

 

its bad to see the state listed as 50th out of 50 in any category.

 

 

  At least we ranked fourth in infrastructure and transportation.

 

Ohio moved up the most spots-11

 

This seems positive.  Hopefully, Ohio will move up in the rankings again next year (and make this a trend).

Napoleon to add solar panel plant

Spanish firm plans factory in Henry Co., up to 330 jobs

BY SHEENA HARRISON

BLADE BUSINESS WRITER

 

NAPOLEON -- Isofoton, a Spanish solar panel maker, will open a $32.2 million manufacturing plant in Napoleon that is expected to create more than 300 jobs in the next few years.

 

The firm, based in Madrid, is investing $16.4 million in the plant and will start with 121 jobs, ramping up to 330 in three years.

 

The Ohio Department of Development is offering $15.8 million in grants, financing, and incentives to assist with Isofoton's first North American location.

 

The company plans to start operations by early next year. It will use a site formerly occupied by Plastech Engineered Products.

 

Read more at: http://www.toledoblade.com/Energy/2011/07/07/Area-to-add-solar-panel-plant.html

Ohio leaking jobs again

Wednesday, July 27, 2011  03:07 AM

By Mark Williams

 

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

Thousands of central Ohio workers lost their jobs in June as weak economic growth nationally helped push the region's jobless rate to its highest point since February.

 

"It's even uglier than it looks," said Bill LaFayette, vice president of economic analysis for the Columbus Chamber.

 

Eighty-four of the state's 88 counties saw an increase in the unemployment rate last month.

 

LaFayette calculated that more people than expected have not been looking for work, and that has reduced the size of the work force.

 

Read more at: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2011/07/27/ohio-leaking-jobs-again.html?sid=101

http://www.cnbc.com/id/41666597/

 

Many states point with great pride to the quality and availability of their workers, as well as government-sponsored programs to train them. We rated states based on the education level of their workforce, as well as the numbers of available workers. We also considered union membership. While organized labor contends that a union workforce is a quality workforce, that argument, more often than not, doesn’t resonate with business. We also looked at the relative success of each state’s worker training programs in placing their participants in jobs.

 

...where Ohio is 50th out of 50. Self-explanatory.

 

As far as the "training programs", the experience of two people in my immediate family indicates that in Ohio you're absolutely on your own if you don't have a job - this state does not consider your lack of a job its problem. One Stop is a complete joke, just to keep a few "counselors" on the payroll.

Ohio leaking jobs again

Wednesday, July 27, 2011  03:07 AM

By Mark Williams

 

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

Thousands of central Ohio workers lost their jobs in June as weak economic growth nationally helped push the region's jobless rate to its highest point since February.

 

"It's even uglier than it looks," said Bill LaFayette, vice president of economic analysis for the Columbus Chamber.

 

Eighty-four of the state's 88 counties saw an increase in the unemployment rate last month.

 

LaFayette calculated that more people than expected have not been looking for work, and that has reduced the size of the work force.

 

Read more at: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2011/07/27/ohio-leaking-jobs-again.html?sid=101

 

Ohio is far from leaking jobs. In fact Ohio had the third highest amount of total jobs created over the last year (June 2010-June 2011) trailing Texas and California.

 

Between May and June of this year Ohio was up about 10000 jobs.

 

The rise in the unemployment rate is a separate issue. Poor reporting by the Dispatch on this one.

 

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

 

FYI, read the down the release a bit and see table D.

 

From an e-mailed press release......

 

 

For Immediate Release: September 13, 2011

Contact: Hannah C. Halbert, Policy Liaison

(614) 221-4505, (614) 397-6080

[email protected]

 

New Census Data on Ohio:

Poverty Continues to Rise, Employer-Based Health Care Coverage Shrinks

Failure to Take Balanced Approach to Address Revenue Shortfall will Worsen Trends

 

Poverty increased substantially in Ohio and across the country according to preliminary state Census Bureau figures released today. More than one out of every 7 Ohioans lived in poverty in 2010, including 213,000 Ohioans who fell into poverty last year.

 

Our state reflects a national trend: in 2010, 46.2 million Americans lived in poverty, up 2.6 million from 2009. The Census Bureau reports that this is the largest number living in poverty in the 52 years in which estimates have been published.

 

“Economic security is eroding for many Ohioans. The gap between what families earn and what they need to make ends meet is growing,” said Hannah Halbert, policy liaison with Policy Matters Ohio. “As a result, more families are falling into hardship.”

 

Ohioans make nearly $7,000 less than they did a decade ago (in inflation adjusted median income) and approximately $4,000 less since the start of the great recession in 2007.  Among states, Ohio had the 10th largest median income decline over the past decade.

 

Over the same period incomes were declining, real prices for basic necessities increased—9 percent for rent, 82 percent for gasoline, 3 percent for food, 22 percent for electricity, 49 percent for tuition, school fees and child care, and 21 percent for medical care.

 

Employers are also providing fewer benefits for their workers. The impact of this is clearest for health coverage. An estimated 60.2 percent of Ohioans had employer-provided health coverage in 2010, down from 65.3 percent in 2007 and 72.5 percent in 2000. Nearly 1.3 million fewer Ohioans have employer-sponsored health insurance than in 2000, prior to previous recession, from which Ohio has never fully recovered. This decrease in employer-sponsored health insurance is the primary cause for a shrinking number of Ohioans with health coverage.

 

Almost one in every seven people living in Ohio had no health coverage in 2010, an increase of 2.6 percent since this recession and nearly 4 percent over the last decade.

 

“The census figures released today show how important it is to make critical public investments in programs that provide needed benefits or help reduce the high cost of living for low-income workers, the unemployed, those in training, and their families,” said Halbert. “That requires taking a balanced approach to the state and federal budget. If we want to keep education, job training, transportation, and health care affordable, accessible, and within reach for Ohio families, we have to fund public institutions, benefits, and services adequately,” said Halbert.

 

Government investments in health care through Medicaid, for instance, help cushion the loss in employer coverage, particularly for children. Medicaid covered 14.2 percent of Ohio residents in 2010, an increase from 11.8 percent in 2006-2007 and an almost 6 percent increase over the past decade. In Ohio, coverage of children has risen 4.8 percentage points since 2006-2007. An additional 32 million people nationwide will gain coverage under Medicaid or through health insurance exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act once it is fully implemented in 2014.

 

Similarly, investments in public transit would provide access to more affordable transportation options while creating jobs laying rail, manufacturing streetcars, and driving buses.

 

“At the federal, state, and local level we need to reinvest in communities and strengthen our safety net, instead of continuing to pursue a cuts-only approach," Halbert said. “Now is the time to invest in our workers and their families.”

 

##

Coalition Fears for Future of Manufacturing

Sept. 20, 2011 7:02 a.m.

Analysis by Dennis LaRue

 

ROOTSTOWN, Ohio -- American manufacturing is in trouble, in terrible, terrible trouble.

 

Never mind that the United States leads the world in manufacturing, the Japanese are a distant second and China ranks third.

 

Employment in the U.S. manufacturing sector peaked in 1979 and has been on a downward trend since, according to data compiled by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of jobs in the manufacturing sector lost, especially since 2001 and unlikely to be regained, overshadow the huge gains in productivity that keep U.S. manufacturing first in the world by far.

 

The Coalition for a Prosperous America, a disparate amalgam of farmers, ranchers, manufacturers and organized labor, contends that U.S. manufacturing is in dire straits and can reverse the situation in which it finds itself only by adopting unabashedly protectionist trade measures; federal, state and local governments adopting "Buy American" policies; reforming the tax code to tax consumption; better workforce training and retraining programs; rebuilding the roads, bridges, water and sewer systems and dams allowed to fall into disrepair; protecting U.S. "infratechnology" (which includes intellectual property) and reducing U.S. dependency on foreign energy.

 

READ MORE AT:

http://business-journal.com/coalition-fears-for-future-of-manufacturing-p20011-1.htm

This could be posted in the "Another dumb-a$$ list/Ranking of cities" thread, i suppose:

 

Three Ohio companies make Forbes ‘most promising’ list                

 

Three Ohio companies made Forbes list of the top 100 most-promising companies. Euclid-based Mesocoat, which provides metal coating and cladding, was the top ranked Ohio company at No. 50.

 

Wooster-based ABSMaterials, which makes reactive gas, ranked No. 67 and Hilliard-based E-cycle, which recycles mobile phones and tablets for developing countries, was No. 68.

 

 

Continued:

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2011/12/01/three-ohio-companies-make-forbesmost.html

Lessons for the Chaquita and Sears relocations.......

 

Job creation tax credits falling short in states

December 01, 2011|David A. Lieb, Associated Press

 

For residents in the rural Midwest, the governor’s announcement was golden: A global company with Chinese ownership planned to hire 612 people at a new factory making artificial sweetener.

 

But a little over a year later, the deal has turned sour. The half-built facility sits idle, as quiet as the cemetery across the street. The city plans to default on $39 million of bonds issued on behalf of Mamtek U.S. Inc. And many of the thousands of people who picked up applications for jobs there still are looking for work.

 

“They said they were going to bring in all these jobs, they had all this stuff lined up,’’ said Patrick Thieman, a 40-year-old laid off call-center employee who had applied for an office job at Mamtek. “They didn’t fulfill.’’

 

The failure highlights an uncomfortable reality for candidates in a 2012 campaign season focused on the economy. President Barack Obama and his Republican challengers, along with many contenders for state offices, can promote their plans for creating jobs, but carrying them out is lot easier said than done. Government efforts in a number of states are coming up short this year. And in one state that has been especially ambitious, Ohio, decades worth of data show the deals often fail to produce the jobs promised.

 

READ MORE AT:

http://articles.boston.com/2011-12-01/business/30463770_1_job-creation-tax-credits-business-incentives-state-aid

Why new U.S.-Canada border plan will boost manufacturing and Ohio exports: Laura Dawson and Paul Frazer

Published: Thursday, December 08, 2011, 3:39 AM    Updated: Thursday, December 08, 2011, 6:09 AM

  By Plain Dealer guest columnist

 

Border delays between the United States and Canada add about $800 to the price tag of every new North American car. A car manufactured in Korea or Japan clears customs only once when it arrives at a U.S. port, but a North American car is subject to border-related fees and inspections at least seven times as it crosses between the two countries in different stages of production.

 

We complain about Chinese competition while we fritter away the home-court advantage. Economists estimate that 5 percent of the cost of a North American product goes to pay for border and trade inefficiencies on the U.S. border with Canada.

 

...In Ohio, there are more than 211,000 jobs supported by trade with Canada, but Ohio businesses lose around $417 million a year to border delays. It's clear that a streamlined border will create jobs.

 

READ MORE AT:

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/12/why_new_us-canada_border_plan.html

Ohio breweries laud new state bill

 

By Rick Armon

Beacon Journal staff writer

 

“It’s a great day for Ohio microbreweries and the Ohio craft brewing industry because it allows microbreweries to showcase their products in a relaxed setting and put us on par with the wineries,” said Chris Verich, owner and manager of brewing operations at Ohio Brewing Co.

 

His brewery, located in the Selle Generator Works building downtown, will open a tasting room, he said.

 

Black Box Brewing in Westlake, Indigo Imp Brewery in Cleveland, Wooden Shoe Brewing in Minster, Mt. Carmel Brewing in suburban Cincinnati, Listermann Brewing in Cincinnati and Neil House Brewery in Columbus are among the breweries also looking to open tasting rooms. The law, signed by Gov. John Kasich, takes effect in 90 days.

 

http://www.ohio.com/news/local/ohio-breweries-laud-new-state-bill-1.251618

Ohio is the leader here. Thoughts?

 

 

http://www.atlasvanlines.com/migration-patterns/

 

"The Midwest continues to lose residents, but Michigan became a balanced state after six consecutive years of steady outbound moves. For the sixth year in a row, Washington, D.C. had the highest percentage of inbound moves, while Ohio came out the clear leader in the highest percentage of outbound moves."

 

 

Ohio is the leader here. Thoughts?

 

 

http://www.atlasvanlines.com/migration-patterns/

 

"The Midwest continues to lose residents, but Michigan became a balanced state after six consecutive years of steady outbound moves. For the sixth year in a row, Washington, D.C. had the highest percentage of inbound moves, while Ohio came out the clear leader in the highest percentage of outbound moves."

 

 

 

This is strictly based on shipped good not residents or people moving.  Keep in mind this is an advertorial for a moving company.  This is skewed/isolated to their industry.

I see nothing indicating this is an advertorial. Obviously it's put out to garner attention to their services, but there's zero information in the text pushing their van lines. It's factual based on their moving data.

I see nothing indicating this is an advertorial. Obviously it's put out to garner attention to their services, but there's zero information in the text pushing their van lines. It's factual based on their moving data.

 

Because the information is based on SHIPMENTS (good), not people.

For the document

Based on 80,289 Interstate and Cross-Border Household Goods Relocations

 

This is based on their information not census information.

 

I wouldn't use this as research on how people themselves are moving/relocating.

Ohio is the leader here. Thoughts?

 

 

http://www.atlasvanlines.com/migration-patterns/

 

"The Midwest continues to lose residents, but Michigan became a balanced state after six consecutive years of steady outbound moves. For the sixth year in a row, Washington, D.C. had the highest percentage of inbound moves, while Ohio came out the clear leader in the highest percentage of outbound moves."

 

 

 

I think it depends on the mover.  This is for a mover that is not based in Ohio, probably going to be more outbound bias.  I have included another mover that shows an inflow. 

It would be nice to see a total for the industry.

 

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/allied-van-lines-announces-44th-annual-magnet-states-report-136527153.html

 

 

I'll just stick with census data

As I thought, recent drops in unemployment are primarily a result of large groups of discouraged workers giving up, and thereby being dropped from the pool of potential workers for statistical purposes...

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/01/unemployment_rate_in_ohio_drop.html

 

Unemployment rate in Ohio drops to 8.1% as thousands drop out of work force

 

Ohio's unemployment rate has fallen further as thousands of people quit looking for work or otherwise took themselves out of the labor force.

 

The Department of Job and Family Services reported Friday that the state had joblessness of 8.1 percent in December, down from 8.5 percent in November.

 

Department spokesman Ben Johnson says the decline primarily was the result of 21,000 Ohioans taking themselves out of the labor market. He says it's likely some were long-term unemployed who got discouraged and gave up their job search, but he says the number could include others such as workers who chose to go back to school.

Ok, I am not sure if I am reading this wrong or not, but according to this data, Ohio lost more jobs than any other state  :drunk:.  Looks like John Kasich continues to live up to being a failure.  Even California gained jobs...

 

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.t01.htm

Ok, I am not sure if I am reading this wrong or not, but according to this data, Ohio lost more jobs than any other state  :drunk:.  Looks like John Kasich continues to live up to being a failure.  Even California gained jobs...

 

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.t01.htm

 

Forget that, not a shocker here, but Michigan lost much more than Ohio did.  But that's not saying much.  Ohio still was pretty bad.

That chart doesn't tell you how many jobs the state has.

That chart doesn't tell you how many jobs the state has.

 

Looks like we went from a work force of 5.9 million to 5.811 million.  Like I said, don't know if I am reading it all correctly, either way, Ohio doesn't look good at all.

Labor force is a measure of how many people are working or looking for work- i.e. employed or unemployed.  It doesn't say how many jobs their are, though (people can have more than one job, or jobs can be unfilled).

U.S. Midwest Jobs Return as Applesauce Joins Cars to Lift Obama

By Jeff Green and Mark Niquette - Jan 30, 2012 12:00 AM ET

 

From northern Michigan’s iron mines to Pennsylvania’s natural-gas fields, the industrial heartland of America is humming with jobs again as a region once left for dead recovers faster than the rest of the U.S.

 

The turnaround may shape this year’s race for the White House as President Barack Obama seeks to reverse Republican gains in the Midwest. The title of his State of the Union address, “An America Built to Last,” evoked a theme of manufacturing’s revival meant to resonate on the campaign trail.

 

The economies of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania -- all states Obama won in 2008 -- have improved faster than that of the U.S. since the recession’s depth in April 2009, according to the Philadelphia Federal Reserve. Michigan is expected to lead all 50 states during the next six months, the Fed data show.

 

READ MORE AT:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-30/u-s-midwest-jobs-return-as-applesauce-joins-cars-to-lift-obama.html

I'm not sure if this has been posted elsewhere, but this seems like big (or at least nice) news for the state: Ohio led all states in job gains in February!

 

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120330/BIZ/303300145/Ohio-tops-job-gains?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

Jobless rates fell in all 88 counties in March

By Mark Williams, The Columbus Dispatch

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 1:07 PM

 

For the second straight March, the unemployment rate fell in all 88 counties, according to state figures released this morning. ... Central Ohio’s unemployment rate of 6.8 percent was the lowest unemployment rate among the state’s metropolitan areas.

 

MORE: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2012/04/24/central-ohio-regional-unemployment-falls-march.html

Thanks, Obama and Kasich.

Headline measures of unemployment are so politically influenced that they obscure as much as they reveal about the state of the job market today. Numbers of actual jobs help to make up for this and are probably better for understanding short-term economic changes in metros.

 

                Non-farm wage and salary jobs

 

  January------February-------March------Total change

Cincinnati    977.8          982.2            996.9          +19,100

Columbus    911.2          917.0            920.5          +9,300

Cleveland    966.3          977.3            980.2          +13,900 

 

 

Thanks, Obama and Kasich.

 

I predict that with the great employment news coming from the natural gas/oil drilling, the start up of two steel mills and the construction and expansion of several others, that Kasich may just win eastern Ohio and possibly the state. If he plays the employment card again and again, which he has been doing almost exclusively, I see him carrying the state.

Background: Abott broke ground April 16 for a new $270 million plant that will employ 240, and potentially grow to 500. Incentives by the city, for new infrastructure, totals $1.23 million, $600,000 of which is coming from the State of Ohio Road Development fund. This is a win, given that the income taxes will more than pay off the money the city is paying out - the city school system alone is expected to gain $97,000/year. The Ohio Tax Credit Authority/JobsOhio approved a 75%, 15-year job creation tax credit worth an estimated $8 million.

 

With the development, the $8 million state investment will be paid back via tax revenues in 15 months.

 

The company was about to select Indiana for its development site, but a last minute deal brought them to Ohio.

 

http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/abbott-breaks-ground-for-tipp-city-plant-1359491.html

http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/abbott-chose-ohio-over-canada-indiana--1360842.html

http://governor.ohio.gov/Portals/0/04.16.12,%20Abbott%20Chose%20Ohio%20over%20Indiana,%20Canada.pdf

 

I'm not going to lie, as much as I hate Kasich for destroying the 3C and almost Cincy's streetcar, I can't always hate the guy.  He has done a lot, and there is certainly a new vibe here in the Mahoning Valley (and it all isn't revolving around the shale industry either).  Kasich is just doing what he said he would in his campaign, nothing we didn't know, and the voters gave him his new office in the statehouse.  So on that note, I approve most of Kasich's job so far.

Cincy, Cleveland medical startups outdraw Columbus newbies for capital

 

Health-care startup companies in Ohio attracted the biggest investments in the Midwest during the first half of the year, but funding to medical-related businesses in the Columbus region was a fraction of what went to Cleveland and Cincinnati, a new report says.

 

But investments in Columbus-area health-care startup businesses represented a relatively small share of the funding for Ohio companies. Investors pledged about $8.1 million to six nascent Central Ohio health-care operations, but they sent $104.1 million to 34 companies in Cleveland and $40.2 million to five new businesses in the Cincinnati area, which includes northern Kentucky.

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2012/08/06/cincy-cleveland-medical-startups.html

 

Wildlife tourism pumps $3.6B into Ohio economy

 

Ohio’s outdoor industry is big business, and anglers, hunters and wildlife-watchers pumped $3.6 billion into the state’s economy last year, an increase of more than 12 percent from 2006, according to a new federal survey.

 

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/business/wildlife-tourism-pumps-36b-into-ohio-economy/nSDRz/