Huge jump in unemployment for Florida families

Sun Sentinel - Florida families with children under 18 have suffered a 93 percent jump in unemployment with at least one parent laid off from 2005 to 2011, according to a new Census Bureau report.

The increase was nearly triple the 33 percent national rate, the bureau reported in its America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2012.

Even after the Great Recession officially ended in 2009, Florida families have struggled with unemployment, the report found.