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Miami Unemployment Continues to Climb

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

More jobs were added last month even as the Miami unemployment

continued to grow.

During August, the Miami

area’s unemployment rate increased from 13.3 percent to 14.4 percent, which is much higher than the national average of 9.6 percent.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

, the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall area had a total non-farm employment of 969,900 workers during August, which is up from 959,900 workers during July and only a .1 percent decrease from last year.

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