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Unemployment rate holds steady in state, ticks up in Northeast Florida
Jim Turner, News Service of Florida reporter
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Florida’s unemployment rate held steady at 6.4% in November as businesses did not boost seasonal hiring as much as usual amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While most of Northeast Florida counties have lower jobless percentages than the state average, their rates all went higher in the past month.
The state Department of Economic Opportunity on Friday said 651,000 Floridians qualified as unemployed in mid-November, just 7,000 fewer than a month earlier.
The October mark had initially been estimated at 6.5% before being revised down to 6.4%. The statewide unemployment rate in November 2019, before the pandemic hammered the economy, was 2.8%.