Posted on 04/21/2006 11:58:33 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
DAYTONA BEACH — The unemployment rate in Volusia and Flagler counties has fallen to historic lows, leaving employers scrambling for workers.
In March, the rate was 2.8 percent in Volusia and 2.6 percent in Flagler, both lower than the statewide rate of 3.1 percent, the state Agency for Workforce Innovation reported today.
The March unemployement figures for Volusia and Flagler counties are the lowest ever recorded and reflect an exceedingly strong job market locally and statewide.
But some counties had even lower jobless rates. Walton County, in the Florida Panhandle, had the lowest number -- 2 percent. And 12 other counties had unemployment rates of 2.5 percent or lower. Hendry County in Southwest Florida, had highest jobless rate -- 4.8 percent.
The national unemployment rate in March also was quite low by historic standards, at 4.7 percent, but remains well above the Florida rate.
Heavy dem area. This in spite of lib efforts to oppose Jeb Bush's economic efforts in Central Florida
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I work for an upscale grocer who now has 15 locations in Florida (based in NC) with several more on the way over the next couple of years. We have had a [b]very[/b] tough time finding people for our new stores due to the low unemployment rate. I'm not surprised with these unemployment rates.
Speaking of grocers, Publix is hiring and they give full time benefits incl. profit sharing for part time (20hr) employees, I think. I know a few seniors there who bag and stuff, they love it.
You will need to be a U.S. citizen and have a valid Social Security card.
In short, the jobs are looking for people here.
It's amazing how we have to listen to Liberals complain that there are no jobs or opportunities in this country.
They and their constituents want everything handed to them on a silver platter.
Own property in Flagler. Visited the property in 2004. Looked like a thriving place then and most especially come property tax time every December when the taxes increase dramatically from year to year.
Hendry County with the highest rate. Hendry has a very high illegal population. Lots of farming and citrus.
I'm sending out resumes nationwide... and FL... is my state of preference.
In no time at all she can have mandate universal healthcare, unlimited paid leave to take your daughters to play days and raise the minimum wage to $50.00 per hour so nobody has to live in poverty. Hell in no time she can have the unemployment hovering in Carteresque territory.
It will get worse.
Baby boomers retiring+1.5 million abortions per year=increasing problems for employers and trouble for the Social Security system.
The Dems are keeping immigration, the war in Iraq, and fuel prices in the spotlight to hide the fact that they can't hammer Bush on the economy during an election year.
Let me post some numbers...keep in mind that Florida is the number 1 State in the Union in percentage of over-65 population...and growing.
Seventy-seven million Americans were born between 1946 and 1964, we call them the Baby Boomers.
The oldest among them are turning 60 this year, they're starting to retire; by the year 2020 they will be retiring by the millions.
We have aborted roughly 47 million Americans since 1973; if abortions continue unabated in the US, we will abort an additional 18 to 20 million more Americans by 2020.
The following segment is from the "Reports on America" series prepared by the Population Reference Bureau, titled "Government Spending".
I've been posting this information on immigration related threads for two years now.
"...Lee and Miller estimate that the country would need to admit an additional 5 million immigrants per year, quintupling the current level of immigration, in order to achieve long-term balance in the Social Security trust fund. A recent report from the United Nations Population Division reached a similar conclusion for European countries, announcing that even much larger migration flows than are currently permitted would not counterbalance the effects of population aging.""To maintain the 2000 ratio between the working-age population (people between the ages of 20 and 64) and the older population (people ages 65 and older), the United States would need roughly 95 million more working-age persons in 2025, in addition to those already expected at current levels of immigration. In other words, if the entire working-age population of Mexico were to move to the United States in 2025, there still would not be enough people to restore the old-age dependency ratio of 2000."
In spite of the millions of illegal immigrants, Florida has what's considered statistical 100% employment...the nation is not far behind, and the Baby Boomer retirement stampede has not yet begun.
Here's another interesting bit of information:
Starting in the late 1980's, the Social Security Administration received a flood of W-2 earnings reports with incorrect - sometimes simply fictitious - Social Security numbers. It stashed them in what it calls the "earnings suspense file" in the hope that someday it would figure out whom they belonged to.
The file has been mushrooming ever since: $189 billion worth of wages ended up recorded in the suspense file over the 1990's, two and a half times the amount of the 1980's.
In the current decade, the file is growing, on average, by more than $50 billion a year, generating $6 billion to $7 billion in Social Security tax revenue and about $1.5 billion in Medicare taxes.
In 2002 alone, the last year with figures released by the Social Security Administration, nine million W-2's with incorrect Social Security numbers landed in the suspense file, accounting for $56 billion in earnings, or about 1.5 percent of total reported wages.
Social Security officials do not know what fraction of the suspense file corresponds to the earnings of illegal immigrants. But they suspect that the portion is significant.
"Our assumption is that about three-quarters of other-than-legal immigrants pay payroll taxes," said Stephen C. Goss, Social Security's chief actuary, using the agency's term for illegal immigration. -- Source
Now my point...
We are seeing the future here in Florida: a shortage of workers created by the combination of an aging population (retiring Baby Boomers), massive legal abortions, and a fertility rate that's nearly centered around newly-arrived immigrants.
When you understand all the factors listed here, you begin to understand the Federal government's unwillingness to enforce our immigration laws.
We need millions of new immigrants to come over the next two decades so that we can fulfill our obligation to the tens of millions of retirees that will be expecting (NEEDING) SS payments for the next thirty years or so. There's NO WAY that the American people will accept the idea of an additional 5 to 7 million LEGAL immigrants PER YEAR over the next twenty years coming to the US...so we let them get in illegally, politicize their presence in the nation, use them as ammunition during election years, make promises to appease the general population...all the while continuing to let them in the country.
Expect another Reagan-style massive amnesty coming soon.
Good points, all of them Luis
We just sell our assets for Chinese imports. That IS going to happen. But we will need new folks to feed us spoonful by spoonful when we go senile. That can't get be done via the internet.
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