Ohio Unemployment - did it really drop or are the numbers wrong?

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Ohio's unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent, down four percentage points from 8.5 percent in November, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services    . In December 2010, the unemployment rate was 9.5 percent.

But the number of employed Ohioans actually dropped from the previous month, the state reported Friday, according to Columbus Business First.

About 469,000 people in Ohio were unemployed and looking for work in December, down from 496,000 in November, the department said. But the state estimates it has about 5.1 million employed workers, down about 3,300 from November. The largest job losses occurred in the professional and business services sector, which lost 4,700 workers last month, the state said.