{"id":345062,"date":"2026-07-19T06:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345062\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:50:07","slug":"floridas-jobless-rate-drops-for-the-first-time-since-2024-northescambia-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345062\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s Jobless Rate Drops For The First Time Since 2024 : NorthEscambia.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unemployment.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-399816\" title=\"unemployment\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/unemployment-540x304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time since the end of 2024, Florida\u2019s unemployment rate went down last month.<\/p>\n<p>A report released Friday by the Department of Commerce shows the state\u2019s jobless rate for June at 4.7 percent, a reduction from 4.8 percent the prior two months. The rate is still 0.5 percentage points higher than the national average.<\/p>\n<p>The Escambia County unemployment rate stood at 5.0 percent, a slight increase from 4.9% one month ago. The net increase for the year stood at 700 jobs with.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, the education and health services fields showed increases of three percent.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the one-month decline, the state\u2019s unemployment rate stands 0.9 percentage points higher than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The News Service of Florida contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Written by William Reynolds \u00b7 Filed Under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/category\/front-top\" title=\"View all posts in FRONT TOP\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FRONT TOP<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since the end of 2024, Florida\u2019s unemployment rate went down last month. A report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-345062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345062","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=345062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}