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That's down from 3.2% in March. Gov. DeSantis said Florida picked up about 57,000 private-sector jobs last month.
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Money for the program came from $1.4 billion allocated to Florida by the U.S. Department of the Treasury last year.
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He warned that the Biden administration "plunges this country into a recession."
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The report shows many people are leaving their jobs – confident they’ll find work somewhere else.
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Workers are shifting away from gigs at hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues for higher-paying jobs in manufacturing, warehousing and logistics.
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The unemployment rate in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area was 2.9%, while the statewide number is down to 3.3%
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The rate fell to 4.4%, meaning 466,000 Floridians now qualify as jobless. Gov. DeSantis says it shows economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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If unchanged, the estimate for the week ending Dec. 25 would be the fewest number of claims for a single week since another holiday-shortened week in late December 2019.
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State law puts the number of weeks at 12 when unemployment is at or below 5 percent.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a wide-ranging bill in Nobember that said refusing to comply with vaccination mandates isn’t considered “misconduct” for the purpose of receiving unemployment benefits.
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A new forecast released earlier this month by the Institute for Economic Forecasting at the University of Central Florida also says housing starts in the state will pick up.
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The October rate is 4.6%, down from 4.8% in September. The labor force grew by 29,000.