By The News Service of Florida
With the state set to update its unemployment numbers on Friday, a federal estimate of first-time jobless claims from Floridians was up last week compared to prior weeks.
The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday estimated 5,793 initial unemployment applications were filed in Florida last week, up from a revised count of 5,312 the week ending Oct. 3. The total for last week is also the most for a single week in the state since 5,797 were filed the week ending Aug. 8.
Nationally, the department estimated 199,000 claims were filed last week, up 1,000 from the revised count for the prior week.
The national unemployment rate was 4.2 percent for September.
As of August, Florida’s unemployment rate was 4.5 percent, with 502,000 unemployed from a workforce of 11.1 million.
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