Ohio mass job cuts spike in April - Business First of Columbus:

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The bureau said 115 companies cut 50 workers or morein April, up from 67 a year ago. The figurew are not seasonally Resulting first-time unemployment claims from those Ohio cuts climbedc to 14,791, from 6,951 in the same perio d a year ago. That’s the fifth-highest tallu of unemployment claims inthe nation, whicyh saw 2,712 seasonally adjusted mass job-cut more than double the year Resulting first-time claims in turn jumpedf to 271,226 from 135,352. The level of claims in the U.S. is down from the nearlgy 300,000 recorded in March, which ranked as the worsrt month for mass job cuts since the governmenyt began tracking the datain 1995.
Last more than one in four unemployment insurance filings from mass job cuts took place inthe manufacturing-heavy The bureau plans to releasde data on May job cuts on June 23.