Unemployment rates have fallen in 27 states since October of last year, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In addition, 35 states saw significant growth in the size of their labor force. World +2
An $80 million expansion of Newport on the Levee, dubbed Aqua on the Levee, broke ground Nov. 20. The project will include 238 luxury apartments, more than 8,000 square feet of retail space, an 800-car parking garage and the region’s first Aloft hotel. Cincinnati +2
Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf hopes the country will be Ebola-free by Christmas. On Nov. 24, she urged her countrymen to double their efforts and reach the government’s goal of having zero new cases by Dec. 25. The number of Ebola infections in Liberia has declined from nearly 100 a day in September to about 25. World +2
Police in Cincinnati suburbs are about two and a half times more likely to arrest African-Americans than people of any other race, according to a USA TODAY and Cincinnati Enquirer analysis. That disparity is far more dramatic in certain communities; blacks are 12 times more likely to be arrested in Sharonville, seven times more likely in Norwood and five and a half times more likely in Blue Ash and Reading. Cincinnati -2
THIS WEEK:
Cincinnati: 0
World: 4
TO DATE:
Cincinnati: 21
World: -15
This article appears in Nov 19-25, 2014.