{"id":226646,"date":"2026-04-10T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226646\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:42:07","slug":"unemployment-in-jacksonville-is-highest-since-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226646\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment in Jacksonville is highest since pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacksonville\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/09\/19\/unemployment-northeast-florida\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment rate<\/a> jumped to 5.2% in January with Northeast Florida businesses reporting a net loss of jobs over the previous year, the Florida Department of Commerce reported this week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h932683-p2\">The labor market data was the worst for the Jacksonville area since the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding the pandemic, the last time Jacksonville businesses reported a net decline in jobs was June 2010 as the economy was recovering from the so-called \u201cGreat Recession,\u201d which lasted from December 2007 through June 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/apr\/10\/unemployment-rate-in-jacksonville-hits-post-pandemic-high-of-52\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville\u2019s unemployment rate jumped to 5.2% in January with Northeast Florida businesses reporting a net loss of jobs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-226646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226646","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=226646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}