Feb 5, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Gov. Mike DeWine announced Thursday that Ohio banks and insurance companies have agreed to loan experts to the state human services agency to address problems with the jobless claims system.
The salaries of the 16 individuals in the public-private partnership will be covered by their employers.
Over the past 45 weeks, the state’s human services agency has distributed more than $8 billion in unemployment compensation payments to more than 908,000 Ohioans. But the system has also been plagued by delays and complaints from people on the phone for hours, unable to get help.
The 3.6 million unemployment claims filed during the pandemic are more than filed during the recessions of 1991, 2002 and 2009 combined, said Kimberly Henderson, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
New unemployment benefits claims fell last week in Ohio for the first time in a month
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
Posted Feb 04, 2021
New unemployment benefits claims in Ohio fell last week, though ongoing claims (particularly, for coronavirus-related emergency payments) went up. (Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland.com)
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COLUMBUS, Ohio New unemployment benefits claims fell about 4.4% in Ohio last week, though ongoing claims were up by nearly 5.7%, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
The figures, released Thursday, mark the first time in more than a month that new jobless claims haven’t gone up in Ohio. However, the number of both new and continued claims are still far higher than they were at this time last year, showing that the state’s economy is still struggling to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic.
Seelbach’s rant was directed at Democratic Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes who criticized newly elected President Joe Biden in a tweet for signing an executive order allowing transgender athletes to participate as their identified gender in high school and college sports. Seelbach, a fellow Democrat and staunch advocate of LGBTQ rights, took exception to Rhodes’ comments about the teenage daughters of suburban Republican women now having to “share (their) locker room with biological males.” Seelbach responded by calling him “a bigoted piece of trash,” adding “F(asterisk)(asterisk)(asterisk) off Dusty A(asterisk)(asterisk) Rhodes.”
Our issue isn’t with Seelbach standing up for gay and transgender kids, but with the way he did it. He let himself get down in the gutter with Rhodes, thereby undermining a valid argument and surrendering the moral high ground. This isn’t the first time Seelbach has made crude and inappropriate comments via social media, and his te