Florida Unemployment Rate Up In June

Florida unemployment ticking up for a third month in a row.

Adrienne Johnston, with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, says Florida's seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate for June is 5%, up from 4.9% in May.

Monroe county has the state's lowest unemployment rate at 3.5%

Some good news ... all 10 major job sectors that Florida follows gained jobs in June, the first time that's happened since February 2019.

Johnston says Florida has recovered more than 70-percent of the jobs lost since the start of the pandemic.

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