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Florida’s unemployment rate drops slightly in June

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Florida’s unemployment is dropping slightly. The June unemployment rate was 5.5 percent, compared to 5.7 percent the month before. The state added 7,000 jobs last month, according to figures released Friday by the Department of Economic Opportunity. The state’s jobless rate remains higher than the national rate of 5.3 percent. There are approximately 529,000 unemployed Floridians, out of a labor force of nearly 9.6 million people. June’s rate was a 0.6 percentage point drop from a year ago. Hendry County…

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Florida jobless rate drops slightly in April

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Florida’s jobless rate is dipping slightly. The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 5.6 percent in April. That’s a slight decline from the previous month. Florida added 24,500 jobs last month according to figures released Friday by the Department of Economic Opportunity. The state’s jobless rate remains higher than the national rate of 5.4 percent. There are approximately 542,000 unemployed Floridians. Gov. Rick Scott announced the new unemployment rate at a central Florida medical products company. Scott has made job creation…

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Today on Context Florida: Jeb’s fumble, festering unrest, community worth and anger

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Today on Context Florida: Campaigns are not foreign to Jeb Bush, says Bob Sparks. However, while Jeb is not an official candidate for president yet, he spent precious time trying to recover a surprising fumble. He dropped the ball on the national stage not from a hard-hitting question by a reporter seeking a “gotcha” response, but from Fox News prime-time star Megyn Kelly. Marc Yacht says the seeds of anarchy and civic instability are rooted in poverty, unemployment, poor education, lack…

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Florida jobless rate remains unchanged; Rick Scott touts job gains

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Florida’s unemployment rate remained flat in March at 5.7 percent, unchanged from February, but down .8 percent from a year ago, according to a report released Friday by the Department of Economic Opportunity. The DEO report can be found here. It indicates there are 548,000 Floridians looking for work while another 33,000 fell out of the state labor pool compared with a month ago. The U.S. unemployment rate is 5.5 percent and 21 states have lower unemployment rates than Florida,…

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Florida unemployment rate remains steady

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Gov. Rick Scott continues to preach from the Book of Low Taxation while a choir of number crunchers sings about more people going to work. The Florida jobless rate remained unchanged in January at 5.7 percent, above the national rate of 5.5 percent but showing an increase of 13,900 jobs compared to December and 274,000 more jobs than a year ago, according to the Department of Economic Opportunity. “Florida’s exceptional economic turnaround makes it clear that we are enacting policies…

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U.S. job market faces hurdles even with 5.5 pct. unemployment

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Unemployment in the U.S. has dropped to a seven-year low of 5.5 percent — a level normally considered the mark of a healthy job market. Yet that number isn’t as encouraging as it might sound. While U.S. employers added a solid 295,000 jobs in February, and the jobless rate fell from 5.7 percent, it went down mostly because many people gave up looking for work and were no longer officially counted as unemployed, the government reported Friday. What’s more, wage…

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Save critical services for Florida’s children

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Reposted with permission from Ben Kirby: Any of you who have read this blog with even a modicum of regularity know that I take great pains to keep my professional life a long distance away from the views I express here.  The political commentary I offer on this blog in no way reflects of the beliefs of my employer or colleagues. However, unfortunately I must break with that practice today and talk about my work. There is currently a bill in the Florida…

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