Workforce Central Florida reported a central Florida unemployment rate of 6.8 percent for October. Central Florida has not experienced an unemployment rate of 6.8 percent or higher since February 1993, when the rate was 7 percent. The latest forecast from the Florida Estimating Conference "anticipates that normal economic growth will not return to Florida until the latter half of fiscal year 2009-'10," including returning to normal unemployment levels in 2010.