ORLANDO, Fla. — After a steady six months, Florida’s unemployment rate is slowly creeping back up.
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The state’s Commerce Department says the unemployment rate rose to 3% last month.
It stayed at 2.6 throughout the first half of 2023 before slowly going up in July.
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State officials say Florida is doing better compared to the rest of the nation.
The national unemployment rate was 3.7% last month.
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It has been under 4% for nearly two years.
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