Growing Florida unemployment numbers tie report
Clobbered through the outcomes of the relentless recession and ongoing statewide housing crisis, Florida labor officials documented a January unemployment rate of 11.9 % Wednesday, matching the highest on report given that the express started counting the jobless a generation ago.
Florida’s jobless rate in January 2010 was a couple of.2 percentage points above the national typical of 9.seven %, the Agency for Workforce Innovation stated.
Unemployment figures for January rose one-fifth of your percentage point from Florida’s revised December rate of 11.7 percent. The 11.9 % equals the record large established in May 1975 when Gerald Ford was president and Reubin Askew was governor of Florida.
And while there are now 1.1 million Floridians out of perform, the worst may possibly not be more than.
Legislative economist Amy Baker predicted final month that Florida unemployment could achieve 12.3 % and remain at double-digit levels for another couple of years.
