{"id":343323,"date":"2026-07-17T11:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343323\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:39:10","slug":"jobless-claims-jump-after-holiday-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343323\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless Claims Jump After Holiday \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 saw a spike in first-time jobless claims coming out of the extended Independence Day holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Department of Labor estimated 7,133 initial unemployment applications were filed last week, up from 4,535 the week ending July 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figure is the highest for a week since the first week of June, when 7,671 claims were filed as the state came out of the Memorial Day holiday period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the start of the year, the state has averaged 5,990 claims a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal estimate, which also showed a weekly dip in national claims from 216,000 the week ending July 4 to 208,000 last week, comes a day before the state Department of Commerce updates Florida\u2019s overall jobs numbers.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784288350_919_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 saw a spike in first-time jobless claims coming out of the&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-343323","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\/343323","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=343323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343323\/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=343323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}