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Scott: Area’s Unemployment Drops
April 16, 2016
Gov. Rick Scott announced Friday that the Pensacola area added 4,300 new private-sector jobs over the year in March. The area’s unemployment rate declined by 0.7 percentage point over the year to 4.6 percent in March.
Scott said, “I am proud to announce that the Pensacola area added more than 4,000 new jobs this year and the unemployment rate dropped to 4.6 percent. We want Florida to become first for jobs, which is why we worked to cut more than $1 billion in taxes in the past two years and why we will continue to do all we can to support job growth in Florida.”
The industry with the largest job gains in the Pensacola area over the year in March was leisure and hospitality with 1,000 new jobs. The Pensacola area had 4,866 job openings in March, including 1,219 openings for high-wage, high-skill, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations.
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4 Responses to “Scott: Area’s Unemployment Drops”
REGARDING:
” governor Scott …..if I ever see you out in public you will get the same from me that’s what people should do every time you come out from under that rock ”
OR you could consider voting for someone else next time.
AND
“Just remember that the stats reflect and include the numbers of ppl that are not eligible for unemployment benefits. The stats are affected by those ppl.”
Yep. Anyone who is wanting to be employed but is not employed is considered unemployed whether or not unemployment benefits exist for that person.
Anyone who is employed is not considered unemployed because he or she isn’t, even if they want employment in a better job.
Anyone who admits to not wanting employment is considered not unemployed.
Anyone who is employed in some illegal activity but claims to be unemployed and wanting employment is considered unemployed simply because he or she lied.
I wonder if inmates are considered unemployed.
David for full employment
Just remember that the stats reflect and include the numbers of ppl that are not eligible for unemployment benefits. The stats are affected by those ppl.
We need jobs in the Century area that will last. But Century gets cut out of everything.
To governor Scott those are the same jobs they hire people for every year. But like always you will take credit for it. You suck just like the lady in Starbucks said and if I ever see you out in public you will get the same from me that’s what people should do every time you come out from under that rock someone should make you run back under it like you ran out of that Starbucks