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Staff ReportsMarch 12, 2018

The January 2018 jobs numbers are out, and they still paint a rosy economic picture. Per a release from the Department of Economic Development: The unemployment rate of 3.9 percent in January 2018 was the same as it was in December, yet down 0.7 percentage point from a year ago. As has been the case for […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 19, 2018

The big takeaway from December’s Florida jobs report: the unemployment rate has ticked up, albeit from a historic low. The December number: 3.7 percent, up from 3.6 percent the month before. Despite this slight raise in the official unemployment rate, Gov. Rick Scott‘s narrative of being the jobs governor remains as intact as it was. In […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 3, 2018

Tuesday saw Florida Gov. Rick Scott in Jacksonville, trumpeting job growth at St. Johns Marine Group, a full-service ship repair and maintenance company in Jacksonville. The company has added 20 jobs recently. Events like this are familiar scenes for media in Northeast Florida and urban areas of the Sunshine State. Scott touts job creation, but there […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 22, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott touted another month of historically low 3.6 percent unemployment, and 14,000 new jobs created in November. Gov. Scott said, “I am proud to announce that Florida’s unemployment rate is at a 10-year low and that nearly 14,000 jobs were created for families across the state last month. As we near the end of […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 20, 2017

Friday saw Gov. Rick Scott‘s Department of Economic Opportunity release September job numbers for Northeast Florida, a mixed bag in the wake of Irma. The good news, via the DEO: the Jacksonville area’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.4 percent in September, down 1.4 points from September 2016. Unemployment rates ranged from 2.7 percent in St. Johns […]

Peter SchorschOctober 15, 2017

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris King said he plans spend the next month rolling out policy proposals detailing how his administration would improve Florida’s job market and economy if elected next year. “Too many people are stuck in low-paying jobs, and they’re not moving up the ladder,” King said in a video. “So we’ve got to […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 21, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott said ‘let there be jobs’—and there were jobs. And the jobs numbers were good. In fact, in one key metric—the official unemployment rate—the numbers were the best in a decade. Florida’s unemployment rate “has dropped to its lowest rate in 10 years and nearly 18,000 new jobs were created for families across the state in […]

Scott PowersJune 16, 2017

Readying to join President Donald Trump in Miami Friday for the president’s expected reinstitution of economic sanctions on Cuba, Florida Gov. Rick Scott indicated in Orlando Friday morning that he is ready to support such a move. At a jobs announcement in Orlando, Scott said he’s convinced the long-term economic advantage of democracy and economic freedom […]

Scott PowersJune 1, 2017

In an ironic economic twist painful to some, Florida’s agencies charged with helping unemployed people find jobs are facing budget cutbacks because of the state’s declining unemployment rate — and some now are forced to lay off a few of their own workers. CareerSource Florida‘s 24 regional CareerSource agencies are facing budget cuts, some deep, […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 19, 2017

Florida’s unemployment rate dipped to its lowest rate in nearly a decade in April, state officials announced Friday. The state Department of Economic Opportunity announced the unemployment rate dipped to 4.5 percent in April, down from 4.8 percent one month earlier. The drop marks one of the lowest rates since September 2007, and is only […]

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January unemployment rate held below 4 percent

Unemployment number ticks up from historic low

In Rick Scott’s Florida, job growth is a matter of perspective

Rick Scott touts low unemployment, but that doesn’t tell the whole story

Jacksonville area sees lower unemployment in September

Chris King to roll out jobs and economic policy this month

Rick Scott: Florida unemployment lowest in decade

Rick Scott: hope for a free Cuba better for Florida than current thaw

CareerSource centers dealing with their own layoffs as economy rises

State’s unemployment rate drops to 4.5%