{"id":1778947,"date":"2022-12-18T06:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778947"},"modified":"2022-12-18T07:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T12:03:39","slug":"floridas-unemployment-rate-below-the-national-average-for-two-consecutive-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/floridas-unemployment-rate-below-the-national-average-for-two-consecutive-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s Unemployment Rate Below the National Average for Two Consecutive Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffloridas-unemployment-rate-below-the-national-average-for-two-consecutive-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778947&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Florida\u2019s unemployment rate dropped in November and continues to remain lower than the nation\u2019s, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201cFor two consecutive years, Florida\u2019s unemployment rate has remained below the nation,\u201d he announced. By investing in our workforce and keeping our businesses open \u2013 our economy has added 28,100 new jobs in November.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For two consecutive years, Florida\u2019s unemployment rate has remained below the nation.<\/p>\n<p>By investing in our workforce and keeping our businesses open \u2013 our economy has added 28,100 new jobs in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1603797849178869765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">A press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2022\/12\/16\/floridas-unemployment-rate-drops-to-2-6-percent-job-growth-rate-exceeds-nations-for-20th-consecutive-month\/\">provides<\/a> further details on this achievement, noting that the Sunshine State\u2019s unemployment rate remains the \u201clowest among the nation\u2019s top ten largest states and 1.1 percent lower than the nation\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNovember marks two consecutive years (24 straight months) that Florida\u2019s unemployment rate has remained below the nation\u2019s,\u201d the press release adds, pointing out that Florida\u2019s labor force grew by 352,000, or 3.4 percent over the last year, from November 2021 to November 2022. That exceeds the nation\u2019s labor force growth rate, which was 1.5 percent over that same time frame. Private sector employment also grew by 5.2 percent, compared to the national private sector job growth rate of 3.6 percent<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida\u2019s continued success over the past two years is no accident,\u201d DeSantis said in a formal statement. \u201cNo matter the challenges, we have stayed on offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Florida\u2019s economy is outpacing the nation for the second consecutive year because we have invested in our workforce and prioritized keeping Floridians at work and businesses open. As the new year approaches, we will continue investing in our workforce and infrastructure to create jobs and keep our economy moving forward.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis has long maintained that Florida has been able to recover economically because his administration took a different approach throughout the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, ignoring the groupthink and reopening the state while others remained shuttered.<\/p>\n<p>As a small testament to that, Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/15\/free-state-of-florida-sunshine-state-sees-highest-level-of-domestic-visitation-in-history\/\"><span>saw<\/span><\/a> the highest level of domestic visitation in the state\u2019s history in 2021.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19895042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Miami-Beach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19895042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Miami-Beach.jpg\" alt=\"Beachgoers take advantage of the opening of South Beach on June 10, 2020 in Miami Beach, Florida. Miami-Dade county and the City of Miami opened their beaches today as the area eases restrictions put in place to contain COVID-19. (Photo by Cliff Hawkins\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beachgoers take advantage of the opening of South Beach on June 10, 2020, in Miami Beach, Florida. Miami-Dade county and the City of Miami opened their beaches today as the area eases restrictions put in place to contain COVID-19 (Photo by Cliff Hawkins\/Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cFlorida has become the escape hatch for those chafing under authoritarian, arbitrary and seemingly never-ending mandates and restrictions,\u201d DeSantis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/11\/gov-desantis-delivers-state-of-state-florida-americas-liberty-outpost\/https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/11\/gov-desantis-delivers-state-of-state-florida-americas-liberty-outpost\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a>\u00a0nearly one year ago during his State of the State address, urging Floridians to be \u201cthankful that God has blessed us to live and serve in America\u2019s liberty outpost, the free state of Florida!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s unemployment rate dropped in November and continues to remain lower than the nation\u2019s, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Friday. \u201cFor two consecutive years, Florida\u2019s unemployment rate has remained below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1300599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6830,5458,7508,9996,4107,6366,3819,4846],"class_list":["post-1778947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-average","tag-bongino","tag-consecutive","tag-floridas","tag-national","tag-rate","tag-report","tag-unemployment"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}