• Duval County’s unemployment rate fell almost a full percentage point between March and April. The county’s rate in April was 11.56 percent, after being adjusted for seasonal factors by the University of North Florida Local Economic Indicators Project. That was down from 12.42 percent in March but still up from 10 percent in April 2009, according to LEIP. “It’s a step in the right direction,” said UNF economist Paul Mason, director of LEIP.
