Florida’s February unemployment rate was 11.5 percent, a drop of 0.4 points from the January jobless rate. According to figures the Agency for Workforce Innovation released Friday, Florida added 22,700 jobs in February and now has 32,700 more jobs than it did in February 2010. Nearly 1.1 million Floridians remain jobless. Monroe County has the [...]
Ohio unemployment rate continued to decline in December, according to a report released Friday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS), however so did the number of employed and the number of unemployed workers. The unemployment rate fell from 9.8% in November to 9.6% in December. That puts the jobless rate back [...]
Jobless rate in R.I. dips slightly in July – Rhode Island’s jobless rate fell to 11.9 % in July, dropping a tick from 12% in June. It marks the first time the state’s unemployment figure has been below 12% since August 2009.
New York State’s 3-month (April, May, June) average unemployment rate is 8.3%. This falls below the 8.5% average required by the Federal government for people to claim the six weeks of benefits under EUC Tier 4. If you have claimed all EUC Tier 3 benefits by the week that ends August 15, 2010, you can [...]
The Bay State’s unemployment rate fell by a fraction last month to 9.2 percent from 9.3 percent in March – the second consecutive month of declines, according to the Executive Office of Labor & Workforce Development. Preliminary job estimates for April count 3,167,000 jobs in Massachusetts with 19,100 new jobs added to the state’s economy, [...]