A new report found that a considerable number of Tampa jobs have been lost during the last year.
The report, from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, ranked Tampa Bay 20th among the top metro areas in the country to lose jobs. The city lost 56,000 jobs, or 4.6 percent, from August 2008 to August of this year.
During August, the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area saw its unemployment rate decrease from 11.4 percent to 11.3 percent. However, that number is still higher than the national unemployment rate at the time of 9.7 percent.