by Ron Whittington | Jun 24, 2024 | News
FloridaCommerce has announced that the unemployment rate for the Jacksonville region was 3.0 in May 2024 – down slightly from 3.2 percent in April 2024. Of the 875,018 people counted as part of the area’s workforce in May, there were 26,241 unemployed residents in the...
by Ron Whittington | Jun 7, 2024 | Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship program helping to fill critical gap in construction industry across South Florida (Courtesy NBC Channel 6) — When a labor shortage hit the construction industry during the height of the pandemic, the industry needed to think outside the box to...
by Ron Whittington | May 20, 2024 | News
FloridaCommerce has announced that the unemployment rate for the Jacksonville region was 3.2 percent in April 2024 – a slight decrease from 3.4 percent in March 2024. Of the 875,794 people counted as part of the area’s workforce in April, there were 28,453 unemployed...
by Ron Whittington | Apr 30, 2024 | News
Jacksonville, Fla. (April 30, 2024) The CareerSource Northeast Florida (CareerSource NEFL) Board of Directors has selected Cheryl A. Taylor as CEO of the region’s workforce development organization – who will assume her new position on July 1. Taylor, who has served...
by Ron Whittington | Mar 23, 2024 | News
FloridaCommerce has announced that the unemployment rate for the Jacksonville region was 3.3 percent in February 2024 – unchanged from 3.3 percent in January 2024. Of the 877,837 people counted as part of the area’s workforce in February, there were 29,316...
