Florida's new unemployment claims tick up by nearly 6% to close out June

Florida's new unemployment claims tick up by nearly 6% to close out June

The final full week of June brought an uptick in new unemployment claims in Florida. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) report shows there were 6,892 initial jobless filings for the week ending June 28 in the Sunshine State. That is 376 more filings than the week ending June 21, when there were 6,516 new claims. The latest data ends two weeks of decreases in initial unemployment claims for Florida. But the total number of new claims still sits b…