{"id":6922,"date":"2011-05-23T15:46:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T19:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2011-05-23T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T18:59:44","slug":"fla-april-unemployment-rate-drops-to-10-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6922","title":{"rendered":"Fla. April Unemployment Rate Drops To 10.8%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 For the first time in more than a year and a half, fewer than a million Floridians were unemployed as the state&#8217;s jobless rate dropped for the fourth straight month to 10.8 percent in April, state officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a 0.3 percentage point decline from March.<\/p>\n<p>The April unemployment rate is Florida&#8217;s lowest in 19 months but still 1.8 percentage points higher than the national rate of 9 percent. It also means 996,000 Floridians were out of work. The last time that number was below a million was October 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s April rate is more than a full percentage point below December&#8217;s 12 percent figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 For the first time in more than a year and a half, fewer than a million Floridians were unemployed as the state&#8217;s jobless rate dropped for the fourth straight month to 10.8 percent in April, state officials said Friday. That&#8217;s a 0.3 percentage point decline from March. The April unemployment rate is Florida&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}