Ohio Labor Stats

Study of Ohio's work force by Policy Matters Ohio, a union-backed advocacy group:

Ohio has 2.8 percent fewer jobs, or 158,000, than when a recession began in 2001.

The state has lost almost 21 percent of its manufacturing jobs over that period.

Ohio's gross domestic product grew 22.3 percent between 1990 and 1997 but only 13.3 percent between 1997 and 2006.

Two-parent families increased their working hours by 17 percent between 1979 and 2006 to 3,488 hours a year.

The likelihood of being in a union declined in Ohio from more than one-fourth of workers in 1983 to just over 16 percent in 2006.

Source: Policy Matters Ohio

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