{"id":429473,"date":"2026-10-16T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429473\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:16:10","slug":"weekly-jobless-claims-jump-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429473\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Jobless Claims Jump \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"650\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792156569_707_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\">With the state set to update its unemployment numbers on Friday, a federal estimate of first-time jobless claims from Floridians was up last week compared to prior weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday estimated 5,793 initial unemployment applications were filed in Florida last week, up from a revised count of 5,312 the week ending Oct. 3. The total for last week is also the most for a single week in the state since 5,797 were filed the week ending Aug. 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nationally, the department estimated 199,000 claims were filed last week, up 1,000 from the revised count for the prior week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The national unemployment rate was 4.2 percent for September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of August, Florida\u2019s unemployment rate was 4.5 percent, with 502,000 unemployed from a workforce of 11.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792156570_633_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 With the state set to update its unemployment numbers on Friday, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-429473","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\/429473","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=429473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}