Cynthia Lorenzo and Rebecca Rust

Florida’s job growth, which led the nation in May, slowed to a crawl in June as the 4,300 jobs added weren’t enough to budge the unemployment rate. It remains at 10.6 percent.

Factor in unemployed workers who have given up looking for a new job and part-time workers in jobs mismatched to their skills, and the state’s underemployment rate is 18.7 percent.

The Agency for Workforce Innovation report released Friday shows the jobless rate is 0.8 percent less than June 2010, but there are still 982,000 unemployed workers in a work force of more than 9.23 million. Florida’s slow job growth is a reversal of the 28,000 jobs added in May, which were more than the rest of the country combined. So far this year, the Sunshine State has added a total of 85,500 jobs.

“I hope it’s not just a one-month phenomenon,” said AWI chief economist Rebecca Rust. “We’re just holding steady, we’re just stable this month. We’re not showing the improvement at the same level that we saw in May,” she added.

Florida’s rate is the fourth-highest in the nation, behind Nevada, California and Rhode Island.