Unemployment Rate Drops to 6.2 Percent

Submitted by Anonymous on January 24, 2014 - 10:13am

Florida's unemployment rate continued its decline during the month of December, falling to 6.2 percent. Gov. Rick Scott took to Twitter to make the announcement, posting a link to a video where he released December's job numbers.November's unemployment rate was 6.4 percent.

Florida added 13,000 new private sector jobs in December, adding to the total of 462,000 new jobs created in the last 3 years.

See Scott's announcement here:

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