Initial jobless claims in Florida declined for a second consecutive week, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor.
The report estimated 5,872 first-time unemployment applications were filed in Florida last week, down from a revised count of 6,463 during the week that ended June 17 and 6,921 during the week that ended June 10.
The state has averaged 5,737 weekly claims since the start of the year. Florida had a 2.6 percent unemployment rate in May, representing an estimated 287,000 Floridians qualified as unemployed from a labor force of 10.998 million.
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The state will release a June unemployment report on July 21. Nationally, 239,000 initial claims were filed last week, down 26,000 from the prior week.
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