Jacksonville’s unemployment rate jumped in June to its highest level since the coronavirus pandemic with continued slow job growth, the Florida Department of Commerce reported July 18.
The jobless rate in the Jacksonville metropolitan area of Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties rose from 3.6% in May to 4.2% in June.
That was the highest unemployment rate in the region since it was 4.3% in August 2021, when the economy was recovering from pandemic-related job losses…