{"id":179549,"date":"2026-03-05T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179549\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:45:08","slug":"unemployment-claims-in-florida-declined-last-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179549\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment claims in Florida declined last week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Florida dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 4,845 in the week ending February 28, down from 5,608 the week before, the Labor Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">U.S. unemployment claims remained the same at 213,000 last week on a seasonally adjusted basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">New York saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims, with claims jumping by 123.9%. Rhode Island, meanwhile, saw the largest percentage drop in new claims, with claims dropping by 60.6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">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=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">This article originally appeared on The News Herald: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsherald.com\/story\/news\/2026\/03\/05\/unemployment-numbers\/88998623007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Unemployment claims in Florida declined last week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Unemployment claims in Florida declined last week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Florida dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,48770,34008,57517,48771],"class_list":["post-179549","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\/179549","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=179549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}