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- Florida's unemployment rate rose to 4.8%, placing the state among the highest nationwide.
- Bloomberg News reported that job growth slowed as real estate, retail and tourism cut back.
- Howard Frank, a public-policy professor at Florida International University, said reduced discretionary spending hurts the tourism-dependent economy.
- Net domestic migration to Florida totaled 22,517 people through July 1 2025, less than a tenth of the 2022 peak, per Census Bureau data.
