Florida's unemployment rate jumped to a 15-year high last month, rising to 7.3 percent, and the state's job losses are increasingly being felt outside of the hard-hit construction industry. ...more

December 20, 2008

The gap between Hernando County's unemployment rate and that of the state's worst-ranked county isn't what it used to be. ...more

December 20, 2008

Florida's unemployment rate jumped again last month, rising to 7.3 percent, and the state's job losses are increasingly being felt outside of the hard-hit construction industry. The number of unemployed Floridians rose to an estimated 680,000 in November, or 7.3 percent of the state's labor force of 9.3 million. The unemployment rate had been 7 percent in October, and it was just 4.4 percent in November 2007 on a seasonally adjusted basis. Florida's jobless rate is higher than the overall U.S. rate of 6.7 percent. ...more

December 19, 2008

Some took effect Sunday, according to company ...more

December 2, 2008

Cemex will hand pink slips to workers at its Brooksville North cement production plant this month, according to state records and a company spokeswoman. ...more

December 2, 2008

Bad economic news flooded in from all directions Friday, as state economists predicted tax collections would come up short by $1.4 billion and new figures showed that unemployment had soared to 7 percent. ...more

November 22, 2008

By the end of the summer, the local unemployment rate reached the highest point in nearly 16 years. ...more

November 22, 2008

Florida's unemployment rate jumped to 7 percent in October, the highest rate since December 1993, according to state figures released today. The state's jobless rate rose from 6.6 percent in September, according to the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation. The rate was 4.3 percent in October 2007. Florida continued to shed jobs, losing 156,200 nonagricultural jobs between October 2007 and last month, for a job-growth rate of minus 1.9 percent. ...more

November 21, 2008

The tour to promote the region to site selection consultants in an attempt to bring better jobs to the Heartland has been postponed at least until next year. ...more

November 9, 2008

JPMorgan Chase and Nielsen said Thursday they plan to lay off employees in the Tampa Bay area. ...more

October 24, 2008