Campaign stresses Obama’s role in Ohio’s economic improvements

Staff report

COLUMBUS

President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign released a positive statewide economic report Friday outlining how the president’s policies played a role.

The report touts Ohio’s 10th-consecutive month of declining unemployment rates and the state’s adding about 20,000 jobs in May.

In the Mahoning Valley, the unemployment rate fell from 9.3 percent to 7.4 percent over the past year, according to the report.

The report highlights the president’s policy during the auto crisis, a manufacturing comeback and an “all of the above” energy policy.

It also states that the Recovery Act saved 12,200 educators’ jobs and kept more than 330 police officers on the streets.

During a Friday conference call, the report was contrasted with Mitt Romney’s 15 years’ experience as chief executive at Bain Capital, which owned and advised companies that outsourced jobs to China and India, according to a recent Washington Post article.

The Washington Post published an examination of Securities and Exchange Commission filings Thursday that showed the extent of Bain’s investment in firms that specialized in helping other companies move or expand operations overseas.