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STATE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DIPS TO 3.4 PERCENT
Florida’s unemployment rate inched down to 3.4 percent in October, a 0.1 percentage-point
reduction from September, according to numbers released Friday by the state Department
of Economic Opportunity. The latest numbers point to the lowest jobless rate for the state
since January 2007.
SUPREME COURT SETS
ARGUMENTS ON LOCAL
MINIMUM WAGE
The Florida Supreme Court will hear
arguments March 6 in a closely watched
case about whether the city of Miami
Beach can have a local minimum wage.
The court, which announced in August that
it would take up the case, issued an order
Monday scheduling the arguments. Miami
Beach approved an ordinance in 2016 that
called for a local minimum wage to be set at
$10.31 an hour this year and incrementally
increase to $13.31 an hour in 2021...…
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DITCHMEN • NOVEMBER 2018