Joel Malkin

Joel Malkin

I've spent more than 30 years on the radio in Palm Beach County, starting as a deejay in the late 1980s. Over the years, I became a news...Full Bio

 

Palm Beach County Employers Are Hiring

Job Growth Spurs Drop In Unemployment Rate To 4.7 Percent

Florida's unemployment rate in September dropped to 3.8 percent from 4.0 percent in August.  

The rate is down 1.1 percent from a year ago.  

In Palm Beach County, the jobless rate dropped 8 tenths of a percent from 4.4% in August to 3.6 last month.  

The local unemployment rate was 5.2 percent a year ago.

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