by Ron Whittington | Jul 17, 2026 | News
Regional overview The unemployment rate in the CareerSource Northeast Florida region (Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau, Putnam, and St. Johns counties) was 4.9 percent in June 2026. This rate was 0.7 percentage point greater than the region’s year ago rate of 4.2...
by Ron Whittington | Jun 22, 2026 | News
FloridaCommerce has announced that the unemployment rate for the Jacksonville region was 4.7 percent in May – down slightly from 4.9 percent in April. Of the 872,793 people counted as the area’s labor force in May, there were 41,012 unemployed residents in the region...
by Ron Whittington | Jun 2, 2026 | News
Jacksonville, Fla. (June 3, 2026) CareerSource Northeast Florida (CareerSource NEFL) will host its first job fair at the Clay County Career Center’s new location at 2141 Loch Rane Blvd., Suite 107 in Orange Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 9. CertainTeed,...
by Ron Whittington | May 26, 2026 | News, Uncategorized
In this month’s Workforce Wire, you’ll read about two small businesses that benefitted through our customized training program, and the support we provided to a new apprenticeship program for a nonprofit in Clay County. (And, speaking of Clay County, we moved our Clay...
by Ron Whittington | May 26, 2026 | News
FloridaCommerce has announced that the unemployment rate for the Jacksonville region was 4.9 percent in April – up slightly from 4.7 percent in March. Of the 871,479 people counted as the area’s labor force in April , there were 42,355 unemployed residents in the...
