{"id":330805,"date":"2026-07-06T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330805\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:55:15","slug":"jobless-claims-continue-dip-in-florida-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330805\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless Claims Continue Dip 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\">Florida headed into the Independence Day holiday weekend with three consecutive weeks of declining unemployment claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday estimated 5,600 first-time jobless applications were filed in the state the week ending June 27, down from 6,120 the prior week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The numbers had jumped to 7,671 the week after the Memorial Day holiday, before falling to 6,943 the week ending June 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current trend follows the state releasing its first monthly jobs report since last summer in which the unemployment rate didn\u2019t increase. The rate now at 4.8 percent reflects mid-May conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest weekly number is near the pace of claims the state has seen this past year, with the average of new claims now at 5,863 a week since the start of July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/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 Florida headed into the Independence Day holiday weekend with three consecutive weeks&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-330805","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\/330805","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=330805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330805\/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=330805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}