Ohio is on a roll! Unemployment rate dropped again for January, going from 7.9% in December to 7.7% in January. That compares quite favorably to the 9.5% rate in December 2010 before the new governor, John Kasich, took office.
In December 2010, 560,000 people were unemployed. In December 2011, 458,000 were unemployed, and it further dropped to 447,000 in January 2012.
In January 2012, 5,127,100 people were employed vs 5,094,300 in December 2011. That’s an increase of 32,800 people who now have a paycheck.
Let’s hope the Governor continues his successes to bring or keep businesses here in Ohio which will certainly help our housing market. Now if the gas price issue would get fixed, we’d be in better shape.
Gas Costs Less Than Starbucks!
Everybody is grumbling about gas prices being near or over $4 a gallon. Over the weekend, I proposed on Twitter that we should try to think positive and consider that a cup of gas costs less than a cup of Starbucks. Yes, I know we don’t buy gallons of Starbucks at a time, so we don’t notice the expense as much.
I thought it would be fun to consider what we might pay for other common liquids that we buy … if we were to buy them in large quantities like filling our gas tanks. The WEENR-mobile has a 20.2 gallon tank per my instruction book. Here’s what I would pay to fill my gas tank if I used other common products (as per Giant Eagle prices).
Do you feel a little better now about that $4/gal price?
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