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The U.S. Department of Labor has designated labor surplus areas for the period October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009. 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 2006 through December 2007 must be at least 6.0 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 6.0 percent; the projected unemployment rate for each of the next twelve months must be at least 6.0 percent; and documented information must be provided that the exceptional circumstance event has already occurred.
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Akron Barberton Canton Cleveland Dayton East Cleveland |
Elyria Euclid Garfield Heights Lima Lorain |
Mansfield Massillon Middletown Sandusky Springfield |
Toledo Trotwood Warren Youngstown Zanesville |
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Adams Allen Ashland Ashtabula Athens Auglaize Belmont Brown Butler Carroll Champaign Clark Clermont Clinton Columbiana Coshocton Crawford Cuyahoga Darke Defiance Erie |
Fairfield Fayette Franklin Fulton Gallia Greene Guernsey Hamilton Hancock Hardin Harrison Henry Highland Hocking Huron Jackson Jefferson Knox Lake Licking |
Logan Lorain Lucas Madison Mahoning Marion Medina Meigs Miami Monroe Montgomery Morgan Morrow Muskingum Noble Ottawa Paulding Perry Pickaway Pike |
Portage Preble Putnam Richland Ross Sandusky Scioto Seneca Shelby Stark Summit Trumbull Tuscarawas Van Wert Vinton Warren Wayne Williams Wood Wyandot |
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