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State and Federal Unemployment Benefit Cuts Cost Millions for Workers and Florida’s Economy
As of October Florida’s unemployment rate was 10.3%, the lowest unemployment level since mid- 2009. This unemployment rate represents 955,000 jobless people out of a labor force of 9,228,000.This December unemployed Floridians face imminent cuts to their benefits both from the state and federal governments. If congress does not renew the Extended Benefits (EB) and Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) programs by January 1, 2012, tens of thousands of Floridians currently receiving unemploy
Florida jobs deficit still near 1 million
Two years after the official end of the recession, Florida still has a jobs deficit of nearly 981,000 jobs, and some groups of workers are faring far worse than others in the economy, according to the annual State of Working Florida report to be released on Sunday by the Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy at Florida International University. In 2010 almost 20% of the labor force was underemployed, with younger, less educated, male, and African American or Hispanic workers more l
Issue Brief: Unemployment Compensation
RISEP’s new analysis of Florida’s unemployment compensation system
