Unemployment Numbers

Despite increased concerns about layoffs and a looming recession, Florida’s unemployment rate dipped in June. The June number represented 303,000 Floridians unemployed.

Florida’s June unemployment rate is up slightly from the month before. Statistics released by the state Friday show June's unemployment rate was rate 5%, up 0.1 percentage point from May.

An estimated 503,000 people qualified as unemployed in May, up from 488,000 a month earlier.

Millions who lost jobs at the beginning of the pandemic are still out of the labor force, making up levels of the unemployed not seen since the Great Recession.

It now stands at 6.1%, below the national rate of 6.7%.

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