Florida's Long-Term Unemployment Among Highest in Nation

Florida had the seventh-highest rate of long-term unemployment in the nation last year, according to a Wall Street Journal chart.

The Sunshine State's average unemployment during 2010 was 11.5 percent, and 33.6 percent of the unemployed were out of work for a year or more. Only New Jersey (37.1 percent), Georgia (36.8 percent), Michigan (36 percent), South Carolina (35.7 percent), North Carolina and Illinois (both with 33.8 percent) had higher rates.

North Dakota had the lowest long-term jobless rate with 7.1 percent, the only state with a rate under 10 percent. But it also had the lowest unemployment rate for 2010, with a 3.9 percent average througout the year.