Posted on 10/18/2014 12:31:46 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
After being stuck in the same range all year, Florida's unemployment rate finally broke through in September to fall to a fresh, multiyear, post-recession low.
At 6.1 percent, Florida's jobless rate is now at its lowest point since June 2008....
Florida added 13,400 jobs over the month with trade, transportation and utilities, a broad category that includes retail jobs, leading the way....
In a news release, Gov. Rick Scott emphasized the addition of 12,800 private-sector jobs last month...
"Together since December 2010, Florida job creators have created 651,300 private-sector jobs," Scott said in a statement. "Our policies are working in Florida, and more and more Floridians are able to get a job and support their family, and we will keep working until every Floridian who wants a job can get one."
(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...
Even that unfunny hack Jon Stewart bashed Rick Scott for supposedly having terrible policies that would hurt the citizens of Florida.
Can you say "Ignoring the facts"?
Frankly, I am surprised the Tampa Bay Times published this story.
Florida ping!
FWIW, for sound economical and statistical reasons, we here at FR have roundly and repeatedly ridiculed the national unemployment numbers.
If Florida’s unemployment is legitimate in that it considers unemployed people who are not receiving unemployment checks to be unemployed, this is good news.
Jon Stewart , short angry poli sci major, stopped clock.
>> Unemployment at 6.1%
But where does that leave the meaningful number, workforce participation?
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