Blogs your wayMiami Herald (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
Florida's unemployment rate rose to 11.9 percent in January, tying the highest rate ever recorded in the state, and the number of out-of-work Floridians stood at 1.1 million, the state labor department announced Wednesday.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 03/10/2010
TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s jobless rate inched upward to 11.9 percent in January, the state Agency for Workforce Innovation announced today. That’s up from the revised rate of 11.7 percent unemployment rate a month earlier and up from 8.7 percent from the same month a year ago. The state has shed 303,200 jobs since January of 2009. Keep reading [...]
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 03/08/2010
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 03/07/2010
As state lawmakers grapple with how to close a $3.2 billion budget gap and shrink unemployment ranks, Florida's leading candidates for governor are playing it safe.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 03/03/2010
By William Gibson, Washington Bureau Unemployment benefits in Florida should flow uninterrupted because of Senate approval late Tuesday of a 30-day measure to temporarily extend the law providing extra payments during this time of high unemployment. The House had already passed the 30-day stopgap before the law lapsed on Sunday. The Senate action means the immediate concern [...]
Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
Florida's unemployment is expected to reach an historic peak, 12.3 percent, by this summer, according to the Economic Estimating Conference, a group of state labor experts who meet quarterly. That's nearly a half percentage point from the record of 11.9 percent set in May 1975.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Florida's unemployment rate rose to 11.8 percent in December 2009, up 0.3 percentage points from a month earlier, the state labor department announced Friday. It is the highest rate since May 1975, when unemployment was 11.9 percent.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Florida's unemployment rate in December increased to 11.8 percent with over 1 million residents looking for jobs.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s unemployment rate hit 11.8 percent last month despite the cushion of added holiday seasonal workers, leaving the state periously close to uncharted levels of joblessness, state officials announced on Friday. The unemployment rate represents 1,087,000 jobless out of a labor force of 9,180,000. The 11.8 percent rate is 4.2 percentage points higher than a [...]
Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Statewide rate hits 11.8 percent, the highest in 34 years Florida's unemployment rate for December was 11.8 percent, the highest in 34 years, the state work force agency said Friday.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
TALLAHASSEE — What the heck happens Friday? you ask. Well, that’s when the state will release its unemployment figures for the month of December. And state economist Amy Baker just told a Senate committee she expects Florida’s 11.5 percent unemployment rate to reach roughly 12 percent for December. “That would be the highest unemployment we’ve experienced in [...]
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 01/04/2010
A betting person would look for Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer to be part of the January unemployment report. Greer, the Oviedo businessman who has angered Marco Rubio supporters by backing Gov. Charlie Crist in his U.S. Senate primary, hasn’t talked publicly in weeks but has said through a spokeswoman he doesn’t intend to [...]
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 12/30/2009
About 200 children were fatally abused in Florida in 2008, a substantial increase from past years as unemployment rates and drug use also increased in the state.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 12/19/2009
Almost two years after she was laid off, Tequeshe Taylor remains jobless.<p/> ``I don't even have a Christmas tree,'' said Taylor, a single mom who visits the employment office almost every day.
Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 12/19/2009
November jobless rate compares to 11.3 percent a month earlier; 7.2 percent a year ago Florida's unemployment rate rose to 11.5 percent in November, already exceeding the 11.4 percent peak projected for early-2010 by state experts, Florida's work force agency said Friday.
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