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percent in May, the reported. Lake and Volusia counties allhad 10.8 percen jobless rates, the region’s highest level. Orange Countyu followed with 10.2 percent. Seminole County, with a 9.6 percent rate, was the only county in the region to fall below 10 percent. Central Florida’s jobless rate nearly doublex fromthe 5.2 percent rate in May 2008. It was up 0.3 percent from April. The region lost 64,200 jobs the second largest decline in the statd amongmetropolitan area. The statewidd unemployment rate wasalso 10.2 percent, the highest level sincr 1975. It surpassed the national whichwas 9.4 percent in May.
Therd were 417,000 fewer jobs in Floridaw in May than in the same monthnlast year. Construction was the hardest hit jobcategory statewide, with a drop of 90,800 jobs compared to last a 17.4 percent drop. The leisure and hospitalityy industry, the biggest Centralp Florida job category, lost 55,100 jobs statewide, a 5.8 percent