Florida Un-Employment Rate is Up !!

The national economic slowdown has caught up with Florida, helping raise its unemployment rate for the first time in more than a year.

Florida's jobless rate rose to 8.8 percent in July, up from 8.6 percent in June, according to new numbers Friday from the state Department of Economic Opportunity. That translates into 816,000 unemployed Floridians out of a labor force of about 9.3 million.