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When the pandemic left service, hospitality and retail workers without jobs, accessing CONNECT system for unemployment was a nightmare, Editorial Board says.
When Colin Thomas logs into Florida’s unemployment system, CONNECT, he sees his usual weekly claims: $125 from the state and another $300 in federal pandemic aid. Recently, he also started ...
Dane Eagle. Dane Eagle (born May 22, 1983) is an American politician from Florida. A Republican, Eagle was appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis as Secretary of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity in September 2020. Eagle was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2012 to 2020, where he represented Cape Coral in Lee ...
Florida's unemployment rate increased to 4.8% in April, still down from its pandemic peak of 14.2% but higher than its pre-pandemic level of 3.3%.
The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication. [1] [2] While the non-seasonally adjusted data ...
In December 2020, DeSantis ordered the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to extend unemployment waivers until February 27, 2021. Florida saw fast economic growth in 2022 and 2023, together with a record state budget surplus. Since May 2022, Florida's unemployment rate has sat around two percent, below the national average.
For years the state, under Republican leadership, has rolled back its unemployment program to become one of the most unforgiving and stingiest places in the country to be without full-time ...
Florida counties by GDP (2021) The economy of the state of Florida is the fourth-largest in the United States, with a $1.4 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2022. If Florida were a sovereign nation (2022), it would rank as the world's 16th-largest economy by nominal GDP according to the International Monetary Fund, ahead of Indonesia and behind Mexico.