Florida added another 57,000 jobs to its workforce in April, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis on May 20.
And DeSantis said the April Florida Jobs Report showed that the state had added 30,000 people to its labor force.
“The nation as a whole lost 363,000 people from the workforce.”
“Our unemployment rate has been lower than the national average for 17 consecutive months,” DeSantis said.
A press release from the governor’s office said Florida’s April 2022 unemployment rate was three percent—or 309,000 people. That is down slightly from the previous month and is lower than the national rate of 3.6 percent.
The governor said Florida has had 24 consecutive months of private job growth, and that sector’s growth has “exceeded the nation’s for over a year.”…