The pace of first-time unemployment claims in Florida remains relatively unchanged. The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday issued a report that estimated 5,430 unemployment applications were submitted in Florida last week.
That was down from a revised count of 6,170 claims during the week that ended Dec. 9 and below the average of 5,808 since the start of the year.
Florida had a 2.8 percent unemployment rate in October, indicating an estimated 318,000 people were out of work from a labor force of 11.174 million.
The Florida Department of Commerce on Friday will release a November unemployment report. The national unemployment rate in November was 3.7 percent.
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