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Thursday's Afternoon Update
What you need to know about Florida today
U.S. jobless claims hit more than one-year high
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week to the highest level in more than a year, raising further concerns about the health of the labor market in the wake of a slowdown in job gains in April. More from Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and ABC News.
Gov. Scott makes Zika request to HHS
Gov. Scott met with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell on Wednesday morning. In a statement after the meeting, Scott said he met with Burwell to “relay requests that state agencies need from the federal government.” More from Florida Politics and Florida Trend.
Gap years make good students — if done right
The latest trend in higher education, right after stringer tanks and white Converse, is taking a break from it. Each year, an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 students take gap years, a practice that originated in the United Kingdom and saw a 23 percent increase in the United States last year. More from Florida Today.
ValueDOC aims to make booking a doctor as easy as ordering an Uber
ValueDOC — a free health and wellness marketplace for cash patients — aims to serve up transparency and efficiency in a field that notoriously lacks them. Founder Alain Fernandez hopes to launch the website in the fall with a couple of hundred doctors and dentists featured More from the Miami Herald.
Millennials moving home with Mom
More than anywhere in the country, millennials in South Florida are moving home with Mom. About a third of people ages 24 to 34 live with their mothers here, according to a study by Zillow, a real estate database company. More from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Agriculture
Beekeeper Survey Reports 44 Percent Colony Losses
The nation’s honey bees are still in trouble, a report released this week shows. Beekeepers reported losing 44 percent of their total number of colonies managed over the last year, close to the highest annual loss in the past six years.
» More from the Palm Beach Post.
Florida Originals
One-Teacher Schoolhouse
Donna King reached into a filing cabinet and pulled out a yellowed newspaper from 1972. She pointed to an article bemoaning the likelihood that Duette Elementary School – Florida’s last operating one-teacher schoolhouse – was almost certainly about to close. She reached back into the drawer for another clipping and read the headline aloud: “Florida’s Last One-Teacher School – Can It Survive?” “That one’s from 1979,” she says. “So you see. This has been going on a long time.”
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