{"id":416761,"date":"2026-10-02T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416761\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T13:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:46:09","slug":"jobless-claims-dip-in-florida-tallahassee-reports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416761\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless Claims 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\/10\/Jobs.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>                                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By The New Service of Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First-time jobless claims in Florida dipped last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday estimated 4,955 initial unemployment applications were filed in Florida last week, down from a revised count of 5,284 the week ending Sept. 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state has reported fewer than 6,000 claims weekly since the end of August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nationally, Labor estimated 197,000 claims were filed last week, a decrease of 1,000 from the revised count for the prior week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida\u2019s unemployment rate stands at 4.5 percent, representing 502,000 unemployed Floridians in mid-August from a workforce of 11.1 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The national unemployment rate stands at 4.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2feb62a33afabb2a91d79ebaef0ef1d0e6240306aa2d5bd82b9d514a59736a98.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The New Service of Florida First-time jobless claims in Florida dipped last week. The U.S. Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-416761","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\/416761","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=416761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}