Encouraging news for Floridians-our state had the second best year among all the states in reducing unemployment over 2011. According to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, Florida came in second to New Mexico in lowering its official jobless rate from 11.9 percent in November 2010 to 10 percent last month, the bureau said. New Mexico's jobless rate dropped 2.1 percentage points from 8.6 to 6.5 percent. Also, the 98,100 jobs that Florida added over the year put us third in the nation, behind only California and Texas. Still, Florida is just one of eight remaining states with double digit unemployment. Who has it worse? Nevada comes in at 13 percent, and California follows at 11.3 percent.
We have got to get more jobs in the state, but it feels good to know things are improving.
Source: News Service of Florida
