Greater Cincinnati counties post single-digit jobless rates for May – Business Courier of Cincinnati:

Butler County’s May rate was 9.7 percent, up from 9.4 perceny in May, according to the . The city of Hamilton’d rate grew to 11.2 percent from 11 percenr the month before. The May 2008 rates were 5.4 percent for the countty and 6 percent for the Clermont County posted a rateof 9.6 up slightly from 9.5 percengt in April. That was up from 5.2 percent a year ago. Hamilton and Warren rates were among the lowest in the Hamilton County had a May rateof 8.7 up from 8.4 percent in April and 5.1 percent in May 2008. The city of Cincinnati’z rate of 8.8 versus 8.5 percent the month before and 5.6 percenft the year before. Warreh County posted an 8.9 percent up from 8.
8 percent in April and 5.4 percent in May 2008. All of the locakl counties’ rates were below the statewide averageof 10.4 up from 10.2 percent in Aprill and 6 percent year over Defiance County, in northwest Ohio, had the highest at 16.1 percent, and rural Holmesw County, in the centralp part of the state, had the lowest rate, at 7.5 percent.
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