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Posted on Friday, 11.20.09

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Florida, Miami-Dade jobless rates up slightly in October

BY SCOTT ANDRON

sandron@MiamiHerald.com

Florida's unemployment rate ticked up again last month, rising a tenth of a point to 11.2 percent, the state labor department said Friday.

It was the highest rate since June 1975.

Miami-Dade's rate was 11.4 percent, up four-tenths of a point, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The government doesn't calculate seasonally adjusted rates for other Florida counties, making month-to-month comparisons hard to interpret. But unadjusted rates were as follows:

• Broward: 9.7 percent.

• Monroe: 7 percent.

• Palm Beach: 11.4 percent.

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