Unemployment hit 18-month low

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 4:34 p.m. May 20, 2011
  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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Florida's unemployment rate is 10.8%, the lowest it has been since September 2009, and the first time since October 2009 that fewer than 1 million people are without jobs, according to the Agency for Workforce Innovation.

 

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