The state of Florida saw more jobs than New York for the first time in four decades in 2022, which many see as part of a trend of Americans moving out of states like New York in search of a low-tax, low-cost lifestyle. In Florida, there were 9,578,500 nonfarm jobs by the end of 2022,…

A national labor market analytics company has ranked Florida as number one in attracting a skilled workforce, which it attributed to the state’s focus on training workers with technical skills and credentials. For the past seven years, Lightcast’s 2022 Talent Attraction Scorecard has announced county rankings based on trends in education, overall job change, migration,…

Florida added another 57,000 jobs to its workforce in April, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis on May 20. And DeSantis said the April Florida Jobs Report showed that the state had added 30,000 people to its labor force. “The nation as a whole lost 363,000 people from the workforce.” “Our unemployment rate has been lower…