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The state on Friday reported Ohio’xs jobless rate for January shotto 8.8 percent from a revise d 7.4 percent in December and 5.7 percent in Januar y 2008. The unemployment rate hasn’t scale to those heights since when itaveraged 8.9 percent while the nation was recovering from a deep recession earliee that decade. The department said Ohio’s non-farm payroll fell by nearlyt 60,000 workers over the montg to 5.21 million. That’s down nearly 215,000 jobs from a year The state’s total work force, which includezs employed Ohioans and the unemployed who areseekinb work, totaled 5.74 million in January.
About three in every five jobs lost in the state last month were inthe goods-producing which includes manufacturing and construction jobs. In the servicee sector, the financial industry lost nearly 7,000 the department said. The national unemployment ratelast month, by grew to 7.6 percent in Januaru from 7.2 percent in The Job and Family Services Department plans to releasew county- and metro-level unemployment statistics February unemployment report will follow March 20.