Local Economy

NEW YORK – Consumer products maker Procter & Gamble Inc. said Thursday (2/23/12) it plans to cut 5,700 jobs over the next year and a half as part of a cost-cutting plan.

The job cuts amount to about 10 percent of the company’s non-manufacturing workforce, and are expected to be complete by the end of the fiscal year that ends June 2013. The cuts include 1,600 jobs that P&G announced earlier this month. P&G said that even though overall headcount will be reduced, hiring will continue in growth areas such as China or emerging markets.

Read more: http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/pg-to-cut-5700-jobs-in-restructuring#ixzz1nEvDOK3Z

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XU Dean Meis said, “The population is just not growing here.” “During the next decade fewer Ohioans (will) graduate from high school every year.

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Unemployment worsens. Area’s joblessness hit 9.2% in June up from 8.5% in May, 2011.

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The case against former city employees union president Diana Frey is riveting, revolting but also revealing. That Frey could intimidate her board, union members and even supervisors at the Metropolitan Sewer District enough to allegedly make off with $757,000 and simply not show up at her city job is audacious. Source: excerpts of City union scandal also casts light on the system that enabled Frey. Enquirer Editorials The Enquirer 7/27/11 A11

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