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Florida Unemployment and Job Loss Surges in January

By Tom Flanigan

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Tallahassee, FL – Florida officials have released the unemployment figures for January. Once a job-creation leader, the state is now behind only California in terms of job loss. At the same time, as Tom Flanigan reports, Florida is struggling to keep up with a flood of unemployment claims.