Florida jobless rate falls to 5.3% {Jeb's FL: 16 consecutive months of growth]

The Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel / Business Section ^ | Aug. 16, 2003 | Rafael Gerena-Morales

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Florida jobless rate falls to 5.3%

By Rafael Gerena-Morales
Business Writer
Posted August 16 2003

Florida's unemployment rate improved to 5.3 percent in July from a revised 5.4 percent in June, as the Sunshine State added more than 85,000 jobs in the most recent 12-month period, marking 16 consecutive months of growth. And that momentum carried into South Florida, where Palm Beach County posted among the state's strongest job growth.

...In Florida, the West Palm Beach-Boca Raton statistical area, and Orlando, both created more than 17,000 jobs in the most recent 12-month period, leading the state in job creation.

In Palm Beach County, financial, construction and warehouse companies are expanding, said Ken Montgomery, president of the Palm Beach Workforce Alliance, which helps county residents find work. July's job figures are "very encouraging," he said.

Rafael Gerena-Morales can be reached at 954-356-4614 or rgerena@sun-sentinel.com.

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FYI.

I realize the media is all caught in the CA recall race, but more people in the press should be reporting the positive economic news and job growth that keeps coming out of FL.

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I meant to type: I realize the media is all caught up...

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FYI. :)

[caltrop]

Florida's favorable tax climate just keeps paying off. It's amazing so many other states can't (or choose not to) figure it out.

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BTTT. :)

[Tijeras_Slim]

Howdy!

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Hey! :)

[windchime]

Thanks, summer!

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My pleasure, windchime. :)

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BTW, caltrop, I can not help but chuckle when I think back to Dem FL gov candidate Bill McBride's "challenge" to voters during one of the FL gov debates, when he said something like this:

"OK, if you think you're doing well with Gov Bush, then don't vote for me."

(Well, Bill, the majority of voters concluded they were doing just fine with Gov Bush in office.)

:)

[capt. norm]

Between Jeb and Gray we have the "Tale of Two Governors", and what a huge difference there is.

As anyone (except a liberal) can plainly see, conservatism works and liberal schemes come tumbling down when reality calls.

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Yeah, there is a really sharp difference here, and I am amazed the press has not jumped on it because it's an interesting and facinating tale.

What makes it all the more revealing - as one swing voting Dem in FL recently pointed out to me - is that beyond the differences in results, FL & CA are very much alike in so many ways: climate, demographics, major industries, etc.

It's remarkable how one state has sunk so low (CA) while it "twin" (FL) keeps doing better and better.

I have to admit the Dem Party's insistence on supporting Davis just baffles me. Their effort to make the recall about the "recall" - instead of about Davis - is also quite, silly, IMO, as this recall is ALREADY IN MOTION. The Dem leaders seem to want to turn back the clock, but it's too late. How can a voter ever support a party that is so out of touch???

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It's also quite interesting to me that regular people - your average "Joe" voter - can plainly see these differences and are talking about such, even though the press seems very reluctant to join this on-going observation and dialogue.

[wayoverontheright]

Florida's favorable tax climate just keeps paying off. It's amazing so many other states can't (or choose not to) figure it out.

So true.

What we have is in your face evidence that conservative low-tax, restrained regulatory, pro-business governance beats the crap out of pandering, class warfare, pro-union liberal governance a la California, every time it's tried.

I might add that the people who benefit most from conservative governance are precisely those that the Democrats claim to be helping with their big government programs.

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What we have is in your face evidence </i.

It will be very tough for Dems to convince voters in FL the sky is falling when FL voters take note of that "in your face evidence."

And, in light of that, I think Gov Jeb Bush is going to be a HUGE asset, nationwide, for his brother in the 2004 election.

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What we have is in your face evidence

It will be very tough for Dems to convince voters in FL the sky is falling when FL voters take note of that "in your face evidence."

And, in light of that, I think Gov Jeb Bush is going to be a HUGE asset, nationwide, for his brother in the 2004 election.

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I might add that the people who benefit most from conservative governance

BTW, I am not at all convinced that "Arnold the Terminator" is CA's answer to its problems. If I was voting in CA, I would vote for the other GOP candidate, McClintock or whatevber his name is, because he seems more likely and willing to rein in the state's out of control spending.

[Eagle Eye]

Florida's favorable tax climate just keeps paying off

I think that maybe the reason that the jobless rate dropped was because of the number of Floridians that emmigrated overseas to work. I've run into plenty. Better than bussing tables or running an amusement park ride.

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LOL...oir, just maybe: More new businesses were started in FL, and more actual jobs [for AMERICANS] were created. Just a thought, Eagle Eye... :)

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From article: In Palm Beach County, financial, construction and warehouse companies are expanding

Note the word "expanding." Translation: More jobs.

:)