Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Ohio stops daily reporting of new unemployment claims at request of Trump administration


The governor of Ohio is republican.

https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200324/ohio-stops-daily-reporting-of-new-unemployment-claims-at-request-of-trump-administration

By Rick Rouan
The Columbus Dispatch
Posted Mar 24, 2020 at 12:12 PM

Ohio will no longer release its growing unemployment claim numbers on a daily basis as the economy slumps through the COVID-19 outbreak after the Trump administration told states to hold the statistics for weekly reports.

Last week, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported that claims for unemployment filed between Sunday and Thursday had reached nearly 140,000, up from fewer than 5,000 during the same period a week earlier.

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