{"id":113091,"date":"2026-01-10T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/113091\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:55:07","slug":"unemployment-claims-in-florida-increased-in-early-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/113091\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment claims in Florida increased in early January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Florida rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday, Jan. 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to 4,000 in the week ending January 3, up from 3,322 the week before, the Labor Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">U.S. unemployment claims rose to 208,000 last week, up 8,000 claims from 200,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Georgia saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims, with claims jumping by 161.9%. Delaware, meanwhile, saw the largest percentage drop in new claims, with claims dropping by 55.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">USA TODAY Co. is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/ui\/data.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:U.S. Department of Labor&#039;s weekly unemployment insurance claims report;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">U.S. Department of Labor&#8217;s weekly unemployment insurance claims report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Naples Daily News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naplesnews.com\/story\/news\/state\/2026\/01\/10\/unemployment-claims-in-florida-increased-in-early-january\/88082173007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Unemployment claims in Florida increased in early January;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Unemployment claims in Florida increased in early January<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Florida rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,48770,34008,57517,48771],"class_list":["post-113091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jobless-claims","tag-u-s-department-of-labor","tag-unemployment-benefits-in-florida","tag-unemployment-claims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}