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Scott: Area Added 4,000 Jobs Over The Last Year
June 20, 2015
Today, Governor Rick Scott announced the Pensacola metro area again added jobs over the year in May 2015 with 4,000 new jobs. The Pensacola unemployment rate declined by 0.6 percentage point over the year, from 6.0 percent in May 2014 to 5.4 percent in May 2015. Florida businesses have added more than 879,000 private-sector jobs since December 2010.
Governor Scott said, “Pensacola continues to experience positive job growth, with 4,000 new jobs added over the year in May. We are working every day to make Florida the best place for jobs so more families have the opportunity to live the American dream in our state.”
The industries with the largest job gains in the Pensacola metro area over the year were education and health services and trade, transportation, and utilities with 1,000 new jobs each, and leisure and hospitality with 800 new jobs. The Pensacola and Orlando metro areas had the fastest annual job growth rate compared to all metro areas in financial activities at 5.7 percent in May 2015. The Pensacola metro area had 6,033 online job openings in May 2015 and 1,025 openings for high wage, high skill science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) occupations.
Florida created 16,200 private-sector jobs in May 2015, and a total of 879,700 private-sector jobs since December 2010. Florida’s statewide unemployment rate for May 2015 was 5.7 percent. In May, more than 33,200 Floridians were placed in jobs by CareerSource Escarosa and the state’s other 23 Regional Workforce Boards.
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2 Responses to “Scott: Area Added 4,000 Jobs Over The Last Year”
And Rick Scott had nothing to do with this so why is he getting credit. Florida made a huge mistake keeping this clown around.
Why are we giving Gov. Scott credit for new jobs again. These new jobs are all generated in the private sector. Gov. Scott’s first agenda was to cut government jobs, and he did. Thousands of people have lost their jobs because of Scott’s cut backs.