• Jacksonville’s unemployment rate continues to drop. Duval County’s rate fell from a seasonally adjusted 11.7 percent in April to 10.55 percent in May, but remained higher than the 9.34 percent of May 2009. Those numbers were seasonally adjusted by economist Paul Mason at the University of North Florida and director of the Local Economic Indicators Project. “The drop from April to May 2010 was quite substantial even after seasonal adjustment,” said Mason.
