Unemployment

Florida’s tourism-reliant economy saw its unemployment rate go up to 14.5 percent in May, even while businesses started reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic.

State Health officials, Thursday, reported a new record high number of COVID-19 cases documented in a single day since the pandemic began.The Florida Department of Health reported 3,207 new cases of the virus, June 18, bringing the statewide total to 85,926 cases.State health officials also reported 43 new coronavirus-related deaths, Thursday, increasing the statewide death toll to 3,061 fatalities including 1,612 deaths in long-term care facilities.

State Health officials reported more than 2,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 for both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday's 2,581 new cases set a new record for highest number of new cases reported in a single day. The 2,016 cases reported by the Florida Department of Health, Sunday, brings the statewide total to 75,568 cases.With the exception of last Monday, the number of new cases reported in Florida each day has been over 1,000 since June 3rd.

More than 50,000 Orange County residents have logged onto a county portal to apply for a one-time, $1,000 dollar CARES ACT grant. The website was...

Gov. Ron DeSantis dismissed as partisan a request Monday by two Democratic U.S. senators for a federal investigation related to Florida’s handling of...

The U.S. unemployment rate fell unexpectedly in May to 13.3% — still on par with what the nation witnessed during the Great Depression — as states...

Pointing to the constitutional separation of powers, a Leon County circuit judge Thursday refused to order the Florida Department of Economic...

State health officials have reported 879 new cases of the coronavirus since Sunday, bringing the statewide total to 51,746 confirmed cases.The Florida Department of Health also reported 15 deaths, Monday, increasing the death toll to 2,252 fatalities.The total number of coronavirus-related hospitalizations in Florida now stands at 9,424 patients.Of the 909,928 total tests that have been reported in Florida so far, 5.7% have been positive for the virus.

As Florida’s reopening plan chugs along, unemployment woes continued to plague Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration this week.

One out of every three applications for unemployment in Florida has been deemed ineligible to get relief. Are the people applying for the support to...