Salem company creating jobs

Ohio is “on our way to coming out of this recession,” Gov. Ted Strickland said today after touring a manufacturing plant today in Salem.

Strickland was at Chester Hoist, which will use a state tax credit of about $340,000 to increase its employment level from about 40 to 90 in the next six months to a year.

“This is a difficult time, we all know that,” Strickland said. “A lot of people have gone through this recession and suffered deeply and are still suffering.”

But Strickland, a Democrat seeking re-election this year, said he and his administration are focused on creating “the conditions that will result in jobs being” added.

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