Find a recent (January 2016 to date) news article about the unemployment situati

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Find a recent (January 2016 to date) news article about the unemployment situationAND RATE in a state of our union or a specific city (identify the state where it is located).
The article must include the unemployment rate as a percentage.
Read the article and post a brief summary report in your own words of what the jobless situation is like in the state or city you researched.
Include the link to the article at the bottom of your message. Use the name of the state or city to label your posting.
For instance, D4: California, D4: Long Island, NY or D4: Detroit, MI
Feel free to support your post with official data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics --do not use their reports as a news piece.

Below is a link to the latest news about unemployment in the U.S. -- the rate was 5% in December 2015. The BLS document will give
you the latest rate.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

You may include this information to compare the situation of the state or city you researched to the one in the U.S. as a whole in your brief report

Explanation / Answer

D4: Florida

Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.7% in May 2016 and there were 457,000 jobless Floridians out of a labor force of 9,773,000. The state gained 253,900 jobs over the year, which was an increase of 3.2%. The growth rate of Florida has been higher than national rate since May 2012. The industry gaining most jobs was leisure and hospitality, and the only industry that lost jobs over the year was information industry.

http://lmsresources.labormarketinfo.com/library/press/release.pdf

Comparison:

The unemployment rate for Kansas was 3.7% in May 2016 and its unemployment rate was 1.0 percentage points less than the national rate for this month. There are now 55,794 fewer people unemployed in the state of Kansas.

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