State, Osceola unemployment rates drop

Florida and Osceola County's unemployment rate improved in April. For the state, it was the first time in more than four years, with 15,500 more workers finding jobs than those who lost them, state labor officials reported. More than 1.1 million Floridians remained jobless and the unemployment rate was 12 percent. That was slightly better than a record 12.3 percent in March, the first improvement in the state's employment numbers time since February 2006, the Agency for Workforce Innovation said. Osceola County's unemployement rate dropped nearly an entire percentage point (.9 percent) to 12.3 percent.