{"id":335730,"date":"2026-07-10T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335730\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:37:10","slug":"jobless-applications-down-over-holiday-period-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335730\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless Applications Down Over Holiday Period \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jobs.jpg\" 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\">First-time unemployment claims in Florida slowed heading into the Independence Day holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday estimated 4,337 initial unemployment applications were filed in the state last week, down from 5,733 the week ending June 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest figure marks the fourth consecutive week the numbers have declined, but this also comes as state offices were closed Thursday and Friday for the holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This current trend follows the state\u2019s first monthly jobs report since last summer in which the unemployment rate didn\u2019t increase. The rate for May was 4.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past four weeks, the state has averaged 5,788 claims a week. Since the start of the year, the weekly average is 5,938.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783690630_464_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 First-time unemployment claims in Florida slowed heading into the Independence Day holiday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-335730","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\/335730","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=335730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}