Florida jobless rate to peak this summer at 12.3 percent, panel says

Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 1:27 p.m.
Florida's unemployment is expected to reach an historic peak, 12.3 percent, by this summer, according to the Economic Estimating Conference, a group of state labor experts who meet quarterly. That's nearly a half percentage point from the record of 11.9 percent set in May 1975.

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