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Florida unemployment drops to 6.5% in October
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida’s unemployment rate dropped 0.7 percentage point to 6.5% in October, according to statistics released by the state on Friday.There were 659,000 jobless Floridians out of a workforce of 10.1 million people. The jobless rate was 3.6 percentage points higher than October 2019.[TRENDING: Gov: Vaccine coming to Florida ‘relatively soon’ | CDC: Avoid Thanksgiving travel | Georgia presidential race recount results]The state's unemployment rate was slightly lower than the national rate of 6.9%.October saw an increase of 51,600 jobs, according to the Department of Economic Opportunity.Wakulla County had the state's lowest unemployment at 3.5%, followed by St.