Florida unemployment ticks up slightly as state sees job surplus Our biggest hurdle is finding employees, Melode Smelko, owner of Altrua Global Solutions, says
Floridaâs unemployment rate is up slightly. Economists today saying it grew a tenth of a percent from March to April, landing at 4.8%.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. â Florida s unemployment rate is up slightly, economists reported Friday.
The latest numbers from Florida s Department of Economic Opportunity show the rate grew a tenth of a percent from March to April, landing at 4.8 percent. The current national average is 6.1 percent.
The good news is that the state s labor force grew too, up 73,000 over the month. It now sits at its highest since the pandemic began.
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Smith, 63, a retired St. Petersburg police officer and author of A Birder’s Guide to Pinellas County (Florida), has been an avid birder since 1987 and has sighted more than 700 bird species out of an estimated 850 found in North America. He said some 400 species have been spotted in Pinellas, considered one of the best birding spots in the Southeast.
Smith, who leads birding tours at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve in St. Petersburg the first Saturday of every month, talked with the
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