Portman Statement On Ohio Unemployment Report

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) released the following statement following the release of Ohio’s updated employment data:

“While we’re starting to see some signs of improvement in Ohio’s economy, we still have over half a million Ohioans searching for jobs, with a large number of those out of work for more than six months, and an administration in Washington that doesn’t seem to understand that the best way to get our economy really moving is both sides working together on pro-growth policies, not more spending, which has failed to create the jobs promised while further threatening our nation’s fiscal stability." 

Portman, who recently drafted the Senate Republican Jobs Plan as a way to jump-start our economy, also highlighted the anniversary of the Obama Administration’s "Recovery Summer," saying:

“A year ago, the President said that we were in for a ‘Summer of Recovery.’ Unfortunately, it wasn’t a ‘Summer of Recovery,’ in fact it wasn’t a fall, winter, or spring of recovery and here we are a year later with unemployment at 9.1% nationally, instead of the 6.7% the president talked about a year ago."