Florida pandemic-related jobless claims climb 81K in past week

[TomCADem]

Source: Florida Politics

The number of new jobless claims related to the coronavirus pandemic decreased in the past week in Florida for the first time in about a month, according to Florida Department of Economic Opportunity data released this week.

There were about 81,000 new unemployment filings in Florida related to the COVID-19 outbreak in the past week. That’s down about 27,000 claims from the second week of October when 108,000 new claims were filed.

The past week’s new claims are also below other weeks in Florida when new jobless claims were hovering around 87,000 new filings each week this fall. October saw a steep increase in unemployment claims related to the pandemic after weekly new filings fell to as little as 60,000 new claims in one week in September.

While the figures in September and October fluctuated between 60,000 and 108,000 new claims per week, that’s still fewer than the peak of the outbreak when some weeks in the spring saw as many as 500,000 new jobless claims in one week in April and May.

Read more: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/377698-florida-pandemic-related-jobless-claims-climb-81k-in-past-week

[Phoenix61]

1. A lot of college kids are back in school and

the summer tourist season, such as it was, is over.

[FM123]

2. It's tough down here.

Much of our economy is dependent upon the tourism industry that has suffered greatly with the pandemic.