Palm Coast unemployment: 13.8%

By Andrew OBrien
| 4:00 a.m. June 18, 2011

The state unemployment is 10.6%, the lowest since August 2009.

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PALM COAST — Unemployment continued a downward crawl, according to numbers released June 17 by the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation.

While Palm Coast’s unemployment rate remained at 13.8% for May 2011 (it was 13.8% last month), Flagler County’s rate dropped 0.2%, and is also 13.8%.

Palm Coast remains the leader in metropolitan statistical areas with its jobless rate; Flagler County has the highest unemployment out of the 67 counties.

Most of the job loss in Flagler County is because of the slow in construction jobs, according to the report. Additionally, 32 Florida counties had double-digit unemployment rates for May 2011.

Flagler County has an estimated workforce of 32,766 with about 28,256 employed.

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