An email from Jeff Miller of Policy Matters:
Ohio is the only state in the country in which a worker earning the minimum wage and working all year for 35 hours a week will not qualify for unemployment compensation. Similarly, it is the only state in which a worker making $9 an hour working all year for 20 hours a week will not qualify. Those are two of the key findings of an analysis by the National Employment Law Project, released Wednesday, February 8 by Policy Matters Ohio, on how Ohio’s monetary eligibility standard for unemployment compensation compares with that of other states.
The report is available on the Policy Matters web site at http://www.policymattersohio.org/ucomp_ohio_excludes_2006_02.htm