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Florida Added More Than 207,000 Private Sector Jobs in 2018

The industry gaining the most jobs was professional and business services, which created 54,000 jobs, an increase of 4% of the industry’s workforce.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is crowing about the state’s economy in response to recent job numbers that have Florida continuing to outpace the nation in terms of job growth.

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity released earlier this week January 2019 and yearly employment totals for 2018. The State of Florida posted a private sector job growth rate of 2.7% in 2018, well above the 2.1% US private sector job growth rate for last year.

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John Jordan

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