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The U.S. Department of Labor has designated labor surplus areas for the period October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010. Employers located in labor surplus areas may be given preference in bidding on federal procurement contracts under Executive Orders 12073 (Federal Procurement in Labor Surplus Areas) and 10582 (Implementing the Buy American Act). Designated areas in Ohio are listed below.
The classification, Labor Surplus Area, is assigned on a county level unless a county contains a city or cities with a population of 25,000 or more. In that case, the city or cities and the balance-of-county are classified separately. To qualify as a labor surplus area during this period, the average unemployment rate in the specified area for the two-year period January 2007 through December 2008 must be at least 6.3 percent.
In exceptional circumstances, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services may petition the Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, to waive the regular criteria. This procedure allows the regular standards to be waived when an area experiences a significant increase in unemployment which is not temporary or seasonal and which is not adequately reflected in data for the reference period. The conditions for classification are: the unemployment rate for each of the most recent three months must be at least 6.3 percent; the projected unemployment rate for each of the next twelve months must be at least 6.3 percent; and documented information must be provided that the exceptional circumstance event has already occurred.
Information on the Prior Labor Surplus Areas is available for comparison.
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Akron Barberton Brookpark Canton Cleveland Dayton East Cleveland |
Elyria Euclid Fairborn Garfield Heights Huber Heights Lima Lorain |
Mansfield Maple Heights Marion Massillon Middletown Parma Riverside |
Sandusky Springfield Toledo Trotwood Warren Xenia Youngstown Zanesville |
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Adams Allen Ashland Ashtabula Athens Brown Carroll Champaign Columbiana Coshocton Crawford Defiance |
Erie Fulton Gallia Guernsey Hardin Harrison Henry Highland Hocking Huron Jackson Jefferson Lorain |
Lucas Meigs Monroe Montgomery Morgan Morrow Muskingum Noble Ottawa Perry Pickaway Pike |
Preble Richland Ross Sandusky Scioto Seneca Trumbull Van Wert Vinton Williams Wood (less Bowling Green City) Wyandot |
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