Fishkind Conversations: Florida’s New Jobs Numbers Slip, But The Sky Isn’t Falling

90.7's economic analyst Dr. Hank Fishkind, President of Fishkind and Associates


Newly-released October data for Florida’s labor market shows 5,700 new jobs, a much smaller gain than each of the previous six months. Also, the unemployment rate ticked up a little – by .1 percent.
Economic analyst Hank Fishkind tells 90.7’s Nicole Darden-Creston that one slower month does not mean the sky is falling, though, and October’s numbers often suffer from sheer bad timing.
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