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Fishkind Commentaries: Candidates Arrive as Unemployment Slips Below Ten Percent

Jan. 24, 2012 | WMFE - The four remaining GOP presidential contenders are dashing around the state this week trying to sway undecided Republican voters and increase their visibility. Also, during this past week, the state released new unemployment figures showing Florida's unemployment rate at 9.9 percent. That's just below the 10 percent mark for the first time in two and a half years but Florida's jobless rate is still higher than the national average.

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90.7’s Tom Parkinson discussed this week’s economic news with analyst Hank Fishkind. 

Fishkind says the new set of unemployment figures reveal positive trends for central Florida's economy.