Florida lost 78,100 jobs in last 12 months, including mine!

Florida lost 78,100 jobs in last 12 months
Aaron Deslatte | Sentinel Staff Writer
10:46 AM EDT, July 18, 2008
TALLAHASSEE - Florida led the nation with a loss of 78,100 jobs over the last 12 months, with June's 5.5 percent unemployment rate continuing this year's trend of monthly job losses as the hangover from the state's housing construction binge continues to linger.

The numbers equate to roughly 508,000 unemployed out of a workforce of more than 9.2 million and mirror the national unemployment average. But while the national job numbers edged upward in June, Florida's headed in the opposite direction, down 1 percent.

May's employment numbers have also been adjusted. Unemployment was now gauged at 5.6 percent, equaling the largest percentage of the workforce to be unemployed since October 2002.

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I'm not counted because I worked for a church and they didn't pay into unemployment because they are tax exempt. I worked there for 2 years and couldn't collect.