{"id":320570,"date":"2026-06-26T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320570\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:32:10","slug":"jobless-claims-drop-in-florida-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320570\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless Claims Drop in Florida \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"650\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jobs.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>                                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By The News Service of Florida <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unemployment claims in Florida dropped for a second consecutive week, but remained close to the weekly average since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday estimated 5,981 first-time jobless claims were filed in Florida last week, down from 6,943 the week ending June 13 and 7,671 the week ending June 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the numbers for the week ending June 13 revised up from 6,732, the state\u2019s weekly average since the start of the year is now 6,007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal estimate follows the state updating its jobs numbers last Friday to indicate that approximately 531,000 Floridians currently qualify as unemployed out of a workforce of 11.45 million in May. The state\u2019s unemployment rate held at 4.8 percent from April to May after eight consecutive monthly jobs reports in which the rate increased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nationally, 215,000 claims were filed last week, down from a revised count of 227,000 the week ending June 13.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782477130_575_2feb62a33afabb2a91d79ebaef0ef1d0e6240306aa2d5bd82b9d514a59736a98.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida Unemployment claims in Florida dropped for a second consecutive week, but remained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-320570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320570","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=320570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}