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Florida News That Impacts You – August 22nd, 2022
Bottom Line: Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you in South Florida.
- The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas is $3.53 statewide today. That’s 11 cents cheaper than a week ago and $1.45 cents below peak June prices. In Southeast Florida prices range from an average low of $3.61 per gallon in Broward, to a high of $3.73 per gallon in the Palm Beaches.
- Florida’s trend for new COVID-19 cases continued to decline entering this week as well. Florida’s weekly trend for daily cases is currently 6,484 – the lowest since May 13th.
- Florida’s unemployment rate has fallen to a record low of 2.7%. Florida has twice had an unemployment rate this low – most recently in February of 2020 – the final month before the impact of the pandemic. Florida was one of only 14 states to lower its unemployment rate over the past month and has the lowest unemployment rate of any large state in the country.
- With early voting having concluded, nearly 2.1 million votes have been cast in advance of Tuesday’s Primary Election Day through a combination of vote-by-mail ballots and early in-person voting. In a reversal of 2018’s midterms – Democrats led in turnout via votes by mail, while republicans outvoted democrats through early in-person voting.