GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS ANNOUNCES FLORIDA ATTRACTS BUSINESSES WITH POSITIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH

From Florida Trend – May 17, 2019

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Tallahassee, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced that Florida’s economy continues to strengthen. Florida’s top rated higher education system, talented workforce, low taxes and reasonable regulatory environment continue to foster impressive economic indicators.

Positive economic indicators for the month of April that show how Florida continues to attract and grow businesses include:

• Florida’s private-sector businesses created more than 203,000 jobs over the year and 16,000 in April 2019.
• Florida’s annual private-sector job growth rate of 2.7 percent continues to outpace the national job growth rate of 2.0 percent.
• A low unemployment rate of 3.4 percent.
• The labor force continued to grow with 136,000 people entering the labor force over the year at an annual growth rate of 1.3 percent.

“It is important that we continue to strive to make Florida the ideal location for new and growing businesses,” said Governor DeSantis. “We need to keep working hard as we prepare for all economic possibilities. We have to keep taxes low, regulations reasonable and support career and technical education to ensure Floridians are able to achieve long-term economic prosperity.”