Florida’s Department of Economic Opportunity announced this morning that the state’s unemployment rate is down to 10.3 percent for October — the lowest in 28 months — which is still well above the national rate of 9 percent.The announcement also left out a couple of key facts. First, job creation…
NextEra Energy — which owns Florida Power & Light Co. — ain’t too happy about being placed on a list of “corporate tax dodgers,” which we wrote about earlier today.A group that calls itself Citizens for Tax Justice issued the report evaluating 280 companies nationwide and named 78 of them…
Out of the five Fortune 500 companies based in South Florida, two of them managed to bank on a negative tax rate over the past three years, earning them a spot on a list of the country’s “corporate tax dodgers.”Citizens for Tax Justice issued the report evaluating 280 companies and…
Old news: Floridians think Gov. Rick Scott sucks. New news: Nearly half of Florida thinks Republicans are intentionally sabotaging the economy to prevent the reelection of President Obama.It’s not just those damned liberals either — 24 percent of Republicans agree, according to the latest poll of Florida voters released last…
After two straight months of having the second-most mass-layoff events in the country, Florida companies experienced 69 in September, dropping the Sunshine State to just the fourth-most among the 50 states.According to the numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Florida accounted for 69 of 1,189 mass layoffs across the…
Florida’s unemployment rate decreased .1 percent to 10.6 percent in the month of September after three months of no change, putting the state back to the same rate it was at in May.According to the numbers released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of unemployed people…
September’s numbers on employment from the Bureau of Labor Statistics aren’t due until Friday, but a private report says 1,638 Floridians were laid off last month.The consultants at Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. released their findings this morning, reporting that more than 115,000 American workers were laid off last month,…
A study from the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy says Florida ranks third, fourth, and fifth out of the 50 states in three different economic indicators.Unfortunately, those indicators are the highest rates of residents without health insurance, the largest percentage of children under 18 without health insurance, and…
For the second month in a row, Florida had more mass layoffs than every other state but California, according to statistics released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.According to the numbers from the BLS, Florida accounted for 78 of the nation’s 961 mass layoffs in August and 147 of…
Now for some bad news. U.S. Census Bureau figures released today show that young people are getting especially pummeled by a recession that supposedly ended two years ago. According to the Associated Press, 20- and 30-somethings face the highest unemployment rates since World War II and are more likely to…
For the third straight month, Florida’s unemployment rate is at 10.7 percent — well above the national rate of 9.1 percent.According to the numbers released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 1,400 fewer unemployed people in August than in July, but the labor force decreased by…
In advance of tonight’s GOP presidential debate, the Democratic National Committee has released a report claiming that 9.5 million American jobs would be lost if a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution were implemented by next year — including the loss of 473,000 jobs in Florida.The reasons for the job losses,…
Another day, another troubling fact about Florida’s jobs situation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.According to numbers not seasonally adjusted by the BLS, Florida accounted for 147 of the nation’s 2,176 mass layoffs in July — second only to California.Florida’s mass layoffs — which count as one employer laying off…
Gov. Rick Scott loves to use the phrase “let’s go to work,” but another problem to list on top of his job-building woes is that people in Florida literally can’t get to work.Keep in mind the rejected federal funds for that high-speed rail project as you read this, as a…
Thirty-one states added more jobs in the month of July, and Florida certainly wasn’t one of them.According to the new monthly figures released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Florida lost 22,100 jobs in July, the second-largest drop nationwide, with Illinois losing 24,900.The state’s unemployment rate went from…
The unemployment rate in Florida didn’t change — still at 10.6 percent for June — but Broward County, among others in South Florida, posted growing unemployment rates.Broward County passed the national unemployment rate of 9.2 percent, increasing from 9 percent in May to 9.5 percent in June.Palm Beach and Miami-Dade…
For almost a year now, residents of downtown Fort Lauderdale’s Flagler Village neighborhood chipped in their time and money on a community garden occupying a once-scrubby scrap of land. They built raised planter boxes and bamboo fences and just put in a new water line. They grew eggplant and broccoli…
If you’re a foreclosure defense lawyer doing work in Broward County, there are lots of reasons to think Chief Judge Victor Tobin doesn’t side with homeowners. In his tenure at the top of the county’s legal system, he has instituted rules that make it tougher on homeowners to fight foreclosures…
Imagine the audacity of running a law firm like a mortgage document factory, with employees who routinely pushed through foreclosure documents without checking to be sure the homeowners even knew it was coming. Then, after the whole firm come crumbing down in accusations of malfeasance, imagine the giant brass balls…
The view from the picture widows is so gorgeous that at first, it’s all you notice. The sprawling condominium — white floors, white walls, white ceiling — opens in a glass rectangle over a white balcony that frames the ocean and sky, two strips of rippled blue glowing in the…
The background of fallen foreclosure king David J. Stern has so far been largely a mystery. But now there’s at least one piece of his past that has come to light: the years he spent as a high school soccer coach and how it ended in a spectacular failure.New Times…
He’s a kompas king, a diaper-dancer and a firebrand, and he just may be Haiti’s best hope for a president with more efficacy than an ingrown hair. Votes are being counted, and it’s between former first lady Mirlande Manigat and our boy, Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly. Why ours, exactly? Well,…
