Florida’s unemployment rate fell again in April -- the fourth straight month of decline -- to 10.8 percent, the state’s lowest rate in 19 months.

The numbers released Friday by the state Agency for Workforce Innovation show a total of 8.25 million jobs in Florida, an increase of 27,000 from March and a net gain of 83,000 jobs over the year. There are also 996,000 unemployed workers still actively seeking employment, the first time that number has dipped below 1 million since October 2009.

Gov. Rick Scott, who has seen the unemployment rate drop 1.1 percent since taking office in January, took the opportunity to tout the numbers, as well as reductions in business and property taxes that he pushed for and the Legislature delivered.

“I remain focused on job creation, so it is great news that this trend is continuing in the right direction. With tax relief for property owners and the elimination of taxes on about half of business that currently pay, I believe we are on the path to getting Florida back to work,” Scott said.

Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, a candidate in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, took to Twitter to tout his efforts to reduce taxes and eliminate regulations in the recent legislative session. One of his opponents in the race, former state Rep. Adam Hasner, seemed unimpressed with an unemployment rate that remains in double digits, but blamed their mutual opponent of U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, and President Barack Obama.

"Florida's unemployment rate is headed in the right direction, and that's good news for those Floridians who have been able to find jobs in this difficult economy. But it's little comfort to the nearly 1 million Floridians who are still unemployed, and the other Floridians who have given up looking for work altogether. Florida's unemployment rate is still higher than what President Obama and Senator Nelson promised it would be when they rammed the stimulus through Congress, and their economic policies of stimulus, debt, bailouts, cap-and-trade and Obamacare are burdening job creators and stifling economic growth," Hasner said.