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Headlines 8 September 2025

Experts say Trump’s meddling with job-data agency will hurt the Ohio economy

President Donald Trump might not have liked the numbers on Aug. 1, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy had added just 73,000 jobs in July and downwardly revised the two previous months by a combined 258,000.
Headlines 10 October 2023

Jobs report surprises as employers add 336K jobs in September

Employers continued their hiring streak in September, surprising economists by boosting jobs for workers in restaurants, health care and government.
Headlines 5 September 2023

Job growth exceeds economists’ expectations as unemployment inches up

The labor market is stable and healthy, economists and policy experts say, although the unemployment rate ticked up in the month of August.