Florida’s job growth rate is three times the national rate, seeing 17 consecutive months of growth, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Friday.
“Happy to report at a time of economic uncertainty, a lot of headwinds coming out of Washington, DC, that for the month of September, Florida added over 84,000 new jobs,” the Florida governor, who has continued to face a wave of scrutiny from the establishment media and blue state leaders for refusing to implement restrictive mandates, announced Friday.
“That’s a big chunk of the national numbers that were reported in September,” he added, vowing to continue to work to provide an environment for people to “work and live and thrive for themselves and their families.”
Overall, Florida gained 84,500 jobs total, 72,500 of which are private sector jobs. It added 50,000 workers over the last month, representing a “5.4% increase over-the-year, which is significantly higher than the national rate of 0.8%,” according to DeSantis’s office.
The Sunshine State has added over one million jobs since April 2020, near the beginning of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. The state’s unemployment rate currently sits at 4.9 percent.
“We’re happy to be able to continue to momentum. We’ve got a lot more to do, and we’ve to a lot of challenges with some of the things that are happening at the national level,” he said, adding they are “going to continue to fight hard to make Florida a great place.”
This month, the Labor Department announced that the U.S. economy added 194,000 jobs in September — a “sluggish” pace, “as they predicted about 500,000 jobs created, but the economy fell short again.”
Because the Governor is REPUBLICAN !!!!!
A true republican
Soon the Fla Governor will be V.P for Trump when he is Re-instated !!!!!! GREAT
11:34 I sure hope you are right. I’d love to see that . Florida has a governor that has some sense unlike the democrat ones and the rino ones like HOGan.