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Florida weekly jobless claims remain low
With Florida’s unemployment rate in July matching a pre-pandemic level of 2.7 percent, the number of first-time jobless claims in Florida last week remained low.
The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday estimated that 5,520 initial claims were filed in Florida during the week that ended Aug. 20, down from a revised count of 6,074 claims during the week that ended Aug. 13.
Florida has averaged 5,933 claims over the past four weeks.
The state Department of Economic Opportunity last week announced a 2.7 percent unemployment rate in July, matching the rate before the COVID-19 pandemic slammed into the economy in early 2020 and caused massive job losses.
The July rate reflected an estimated 283,000 Floridians out of work from a workforce of about 10.66 million.
