Florida’s unemployment outlook remains bleak, with the state Agency for Workforce Innovation report released Friday showing a jobless rate of 12 percent for November.

The number is up slightly from October’s 11.9 percent. There are 1.1 million Floridians out of work, and nonagricultural employment stands at 7.2 million people, with 300 jobs added in November.

The unemployment figures are only part of Florida’s jobs problem. If discouraged and underemployed workers -- those who have given up looking for work or are working in part-time jobs involuntarily -- are counted in the jobless numbers, Florida’s unemployment rate jumps to 20 percent.

After unemployment peaked at 12.3 percent in March, the rate fell to 11.4 percent in June before ticking upward. While statistics for November reflected the fifth straight month of job gains after three years of job losses, the unemployment rate has increased due to new and newly encouraged workers entering the work force. New entrants and those re-entering the work force make up 32.7 percent of the unemployed.

“Even though it’s pretty stable, relatively flat, it’s going in the right direction,” said AWI chief economist Rebecca Rust.

Despite the dismal numbers, out-of-work Floridians did receive some good news this week when a tax bill that included the extension of 13 months of unemployment benefits passed both chambers of Congress. President Barack Obama signed the bill Friday, which means thousands of Floridians will be able to receive unemployment benefits that had run out earlier this month.

Florida's extended benefits program, that pays up to 20 weeks of extra benefits to unemployed workers who have run through their 79 weeks of regular state and federal benefits, ended on Dec. 4. Gov. Charlie Crist signed an executive order Friday to enact another extended benefits period, enabling AWI to begin paying eligible unemployed workers next week.