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Florida and the First Coast saw a decrease in the monthly unemployment rate for August, bucking a brief trend of rising jobless figures over the summer. The state’s jobless rate came in at 4.9 percent in August, down from the 5.1 percent rate for July, according to figures released Friday by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.

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