{"id":183194,"date":"2026-03-08T13:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183194\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:51:14","slug":"initial-unemployment-claims-in-florida-drop-for-week-ending-feb-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183194\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial unemployment claims in Florida drop for week ending Feb. 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was nearly a 10% increase in new jobless filings across America in the weekly report.<\/p>\n

New jobless claims in Florida posted a notable drop for the week ending Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL<\/a>) posted the latest unemployment filings<\/a> and it was a decent week for the Sunshine State. There were 4,845 initial claims made in the most recent report. That\u2019s a decline of 763 filings that were made in the week ending Feb. 21 at 5,608.<\/p>\n

While Florida\u2019s number of new jobless claims went down, that cut against the national weekly trend. There was a significant increase in those filings among the latest figures.<\/p>\n

A total of 213,090 initial claims were made across the U.S. in the DOL report. That\u2019s a jump of 9.7% or 18,820 new filings in the weekly figures. That\u2019s right about where DOL economists had projected. Those analysts had predicted there would be 18,938 new filings for the period.<\/p>\n

The annual national comparison produced a drop in the figure. There were 226,019 new filings across the country for the same comparable week a year ago.<\/p>\n

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The most recent monthly unemployment figure<\/a> for Florida came in at 4.3% in December. That\u2019s just below\u00a0 the national figure which was 4.4% in February.<\/p>\n

FloridaCommerce<\/a> reported that Florida figure was an increase of a 0.1 percentage point from November\u2019s figure. There were 486,000 jobless Floridians out of a labor force of 11,225,000 in December.<\/p>\n

Breaking it down further, there were 10.04 million nonagriculutural jobs in December. That\u2019s a gain of some 40,000 jobs in the year-over-year comparison. That\u2019s an increase of about 0.4 percentage points. But it was a drop of about 4,200 jobs compared to November or a drop of 0.1 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was nearly a 10% increase in new jobless filings across America in the weekly report. New jobless…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34003,28,30,29,34005,48770,86303,34008,86304,86305,86306],"class_list":["post-183194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-dol","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-floridacommerce","tag-jobless-claims","tag-labor-force","tag-u-s-department-of-labor","tag-unemployment-figure","tag-unemployment-filings","tag-week-ending-feb-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183194","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=183194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}