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Unemployment Rate Jumps In Local Three-County Area
March 18, 2014
The latest job numbers released Monday show the unemployment level inching upwards in the North Escambia area — an increase blamed on the loss of December’s seasonal service jobs.
Escambia County’s unemployment rate jumped from 6.2 percent in December to 6.6 percent in January. There were 8,967 people reported unemployed during the period. One year ago, unemployment in Escambia County was 8.5 percent.
Santa Rosa County unemployment also increase, from 5.3 to 5.9 percent from December to January. Santa Rosa County had a total of 4,269 persons still unemployed. The year-ago unemployment rate in Santa Rosa County was 7.9 percent.
In Escambia County, Alabama, unemployment increased from7.1 percent in December to 8.5 percent in January. That represented 1,182 people unemployed in the county during the month.
Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dipped to 6.1 percent in January from 6.3 percent in December. The drop comes despite the state losing an estimated 2,600 non-agricultural jobs between December and January, with some of the biggest hits taken in the fields of retail sales, education and health services, along with leisure and hospitality.
“We have come a long way in three years, but let’s keep working to make sure every person who wants a job can have one,” Scott said in a release that included his new “let’s keep working” campaign slogan.
Florida remains below the national jobless mark of 6.7 percent.
In terms of job creation, the U.S. Department of Labor noted Monday that Florida’s 192,800 job increase during the past year trailed only Texas and California, with each posting more than 300,000 new jobs.
The January seasonally adjusted monthly jobless mark — a statistical technique that eliminates recurring events such as weather, holidays, and the school calendar — is the lowest for Florida since June 2008.
Alabama’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, at 6.1percent in January, was unchanged from December’s rate and was below the year-ago rate of 6.7 percent.
The jobless numbers released by Florida and Alabama do not include persons that have given up on finding a job and are no longer reported as unemployed.
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