Florida Still Losing Ground In Wages Despite Uptick In Jobs
The drop in Florida unemployment masks a troubling trend: The new jobs continue to pay far less than the ones that have been lost.
Florida Companies to Watch Shines Spotlight on Second-Stage Growing Companies
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on a break-out inaugural year, the 2012 Florida Companies to Watch awards program is back to recognize and award growing second-stage companies, headquartered ...
Thorns riddle STEM solution
Emphasizing STEM from non-STEM disciplines is fraught with faulty reasoning and risks deflating Florida's ascending higher education institutions from national flagship status to trade-school status.
Florida Companies to Watch Spotlights Second-Stage Growing Companies
Accepting Nominations and Applications for 2012ORLANDO, Fla., -- Building on a break-out inaugural y...
The Fed is Engineering Obama’s Re-Election Campaign
Mitt Romney has just rolled up back to back victories in the Nevada and Florida primaries, and his path to the Republican nomination looks to be inevitable.
Obama touts low-wage tourism jobs, nixes high-wage energy jobs
A day after President Barack Obama nixed up to 20,000 high-wage Keystone XL pipeline construction jobs, he flew down to Florida to tout his support for low-wage tourism jobs.
Lawmakers face big hurdles in trying to revamp state university system
As lawmakers seek to overhaul the state’s university system, deeply vested interests — at the colleges and in the Legislature — pose big hurdles to big changes.
Caterpillar rules out Illinois for new plant, but N.C. could be in contention
Caterpillar Inc. has ruled out Illinois as a site for a factory and 1,400 jobs it plans to move from Japan , but potentially put North Carolina in its sights again.
Letter: Got it backwards
Presidents of the University of Florida and Florida State University suggested that lawmakers let them pay for expanding and expensive science, technology, engineering and math programs ...
Big regional projects rally the construction industry
No industry has been hit harder by Florida's protracted downturn than construction, which has lost half of its jobs since 2006.