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October 13, 2011
Binge Drinking Rises with Unemployment: UMiami Study
Don't think just because incomes tend to dwindle during times of job loss that folks still aren't shelling out cash for booze. In fact, a new University of Miami study claims that incidents of binge drinking tend to rise with state unemployment levels. The study flies in the face of previous stud ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
Rick Scott Still Trying to Figure Out Exactly What His Campaign Promises Meant
Back when he was running for Governor, Rick Scott promised that he'd add 700,000 jobs in Florida over seven years in addition to what the economy would produce regardless of who was Governor. It seemed like a simple enough promise at the time, but now ten months into his term he's still ap ... More >>
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October 3, 2011
Miami Ranked One of America's Most Stressful Cities
Oh sure we've got decent weather and calming seas, but it's not exactly a surprise that for us living year round in Miami life can be stressful. Let's not even get started on our ridiculous traffic, horrible parking, and tanked economy. So it shouldn't be shocki ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Miami-Dade's Unemployment Rate Falls for Second Month in a Row
Though the unemployment rate at both the national and state levels remains stagnant or sagging, the job market in Miami-Dade continues to make gains. From August 2010 to last month, 13,900 jobs were added in Miami-Dade. However, our seasonally adjusted unemployment rate still sits at 12 ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
Miami-Dade's Unemployment Rate Fell 1.4 Percent in July, But Florida Still Lost 22,100 Jobs
Rick "The Jobs Governor" Scott has pointed to Florida's slowly dwindling unemployment rate since he took office in January. In fact, from January through June the state added 64,300 jobs. July is a different story. More than a third of those total jobs gained have now been lost.The good news ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Rick Scott Falsely Claims Florida's Unemployment Rate Has Fallen Faster Than Any Other Since He Took Office
Rick Scott spent his entire morning today serving doughnuts at a shop in Tampa in an effort to paint himself as a creator-of-jobs governor and score some publicity points. Of course, directly after, he got on a talk radio show to talk all about it.Scott was chatting on WFTL 850 AM in Pompano Bea ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Rick Scott's dirtiest deeds
Rick Scott spent his entire morning today serving doughnuts at a shop in Tampa in an effort to paint himself as a creator-of-jobs governor and score some publicity points. Of course, directly after, he got on a talk radio show to talk all about it.Scott was chatting on WFTL 850 AM in Pompano Bea ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Florida's Unemployment Rate is Lowest Since August 2009, But Miami-Dade's Rises Again
The unemployment rate in Florida has fallen for the fifth straight month in May, mirroring a national trend. Unfortunately, there isn't much to celebrate in Miami-Dade. The local unemployment rate rose once again by 0.5 percent and is now the second highest unemployment rate of any county in Flor ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
Lie: Rick Scott Infers He's Better at Creating Job Than Obama
It's one thing for a politician to twist facts and figures to support his own agenda. Unfortunately, it's just business as usual for the political class. It's quite another for a politician to have such little faith in the intelligence of his constituents that he straight-up lies about figures an ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Florida Unemployment Hits Lowest Level in 19 Months, But Tops 13 Percent in Miami-Dade
Well, here's the "good" news. Florida's unemployment rate now sits at 10.8 percent according to numbers from the month of April. That's still stupendously high, and still well above the national rate of 9.2 percent. The bad news it that the unemployment actually rose in Miami-Dade in April, a ... More >>
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September 17, 2010
Miami-Dade Unemployment Rates Rises to 14.4 Percent
The unemployment rate in Miami-Dade county rose to a staggering 14.4 percent in the month of August, the Agency for Workforce Innovation reported today. That's a full one percent jump since last month and a 2.8 percent jump since August 2009. Basically, 188,000 are hopelessly unemployed Lloyds an ... More >>
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July 16, 2010
Miami-Dade Unemployment Rate Rises in June
The overall unemployment rate in Florida declined in June, but the Miami-Dade county saw the steepest ride in the entire state. The unemployment rate jumped half a percent from 12.3 in May to 12.8 in June.
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June 18, 2010
As Florida Unemployment Falls, Miami-Dade's Rate Jumps Nearly a Full Point
via Ryan O'KeefeSomewhat encouraging news on the employment front: Florida's unemployment numbers fell for the second month in a row. That's only the second two months run of dents in the massive unemployment rate since February 2006. For May, Florida's unemployment rate was 11.7 percent, that's ... More >>
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March 26, 2010
Florida Unemployment Rate Reaches Highest Level of All Time
12.2 percent. That was the unemployment rate in Florida for February, and the highest ever recorded. Miami-Dade's adjusted unemployment rate sits at 11.8, up from 11.7 last month. The national rate sits at 9.7 percent.All in all the sunshine state has lost 211,500 jobs in the past year. Ther ... More >>
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April 27, 2009
Miami: City of the Future! It'll Be Great Here... Eventually!
Some futurists have looked into their crystal balls and dubbed Miami a "City of the Future."Does that mean we'll get jet packs and phones implanted directly into our heads before everyone else? Uh, no, but it means in the future we'll have great "economic potential, human resources, cost effectivene ... More >>
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March 27, 2009
Florida Unemployment Hits 9.4 Percent
Sometimes it seems like the economy is hitting Miami-Dade from all sides, but there's a bit of good news: We're not quite as unemployed as the rest of the state. Florida's unemployment rate for February was released today, and it is not good: 9.4 percent! That's up from 8.1 percent in January, and g ... More >>
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September 18, 2008
Lift Every Voice and Sing!
Sometimes it seems like the economy is hitting Miami-Dade from all sides, but there's a bit of good news: We're not quite as unemployed as the rest of the state. Florida's unemployment rate for February was released today, and it is not good: 9.4 percent! That's up from 8.1 percent in January, and g ... More >>
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June 6, 2008
As Unemployment Rises, Economists Say We May Be In A Recession
Sometimes it seems like the economy is hitting Miami-Dade from all sides, but there's a bit of good news: We're not quite as unemployed as the rest of the state. Florida's unemployment rate for February was released today, and it is not good: 9.4 percent! That's up from 8.1 percent in January, and g ... More >>
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October 16, 2003
Meet Your Neighbors One Year Later
Overtown's Louise and Jeanette hold steady, but Little Haiti's Naomi is barely holding on
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March 4, 1992
Score one for Bob Kunst
The canned CAN executive director gets a little help from the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security

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