unemployment

People with disabilities traditionally have much higher rates of unemployment than everyone else. But an analysis by the Economic Innovation Group found the COVID-19 pandemic and increased opportunities to work remotely helped push the employment rate for people with disabilities to its highest level since the Great Recession.

House Bill 4 would reduce the maximum number of weeks someone can collect unemployment benefits from 26 weeks to 24 weeks, and when the state’s unemployment rate is low, the maximum time would be reduced even further. The proposal would also create new job search requirements.

In August, the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services said it had paid out $478 million in fraudulent claims in both the traditional unemployment benefits program and the federal pandemic unemployment assistance program. A contractor says other state agencies should be paying attention.

Last month, Ohio's unemployment rate continued to trend in an upward direction.

Local hotels are struggling to hire enough workers to keep up with rebounding travel and tourism.Bimal Patel, board member for the Hamilton County…

Indiana is one of eight states that are scheduled to end expanded pandemic unemployment benefits this weekend.

Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) has announced the state will cut off the additional $300 in weekly federal assistance going to unemployed workers, starting in...

Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senator is urging the state to stop providing the $300 weekly federal checks to unemployed Ohioans, which will stop coming...

State Auditor Mike Harmon says at least 10 workers in the state unemployment office improperly filed for benefits last year and used their official...

The pandemic has caused record unemployment rates across the country. In Cincinnati, the unemployment decreased to just under 5% in January. But plenty of…