WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Ohio took in nearly twice as many new unemployment claims last week as the week before, in the same days that 1,341 truck workers in Springfield were due to lose their jobs, while the national figure the Labor Department leads with barely moved.

That figure was 199,000 seasonally adjusted initial claims for the week ending Oct. 10, up 1,000 from a revised 198,000, the department said in its Thursday release. It is the fifth straight week below 200,000, against 222,000 a year ago. The year's lowest weeks were April 25 at 190,000 and July 18 at 189,000, the latter revised from the 187,000 that TEH reported as a 57-year low in weekly jobless claims.

The seasonal adjustment is built to absorb a rise like this one, and...