{"id":180781,"date":"2026-03-06T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180781\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:05:10","slug":"jobless-claims-down-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180781\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless Claims Down In Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By News Service of Florida<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 4,845 first-time unemployment claims were filed in Florida last week, the fewest for a week since the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Labor estimate is down from a revised count of 5,608 for the week ending Feb. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past four weeks, the running weekly average is now 5,534, down from 5,734.<\/p>\n<p>The estimate for last week was the lowest for a single week since 4,205 were recorded the New Year\u2019s holiday shortened period that ended Jan. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, 213,000 claims were filed last week, unchanged from the prior week ending Feb. 21.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. unemployment rate stands at 4.3 percent. Florida\u2019s jobless rate also is at 4.3 percent, reflecting mid-December conditions with an estimated 486,000 Floridians qualified as unemployed from a workforce of 11.23 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s January numbers are set to be released April 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By News Service of Florida An estimated 4,845 first-time unemployment claims were filed in Florida last week, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-180781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180781","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=180781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}