Buying or selling a house in Florida drives the economy and creates jobs.

Buying or selling a house in Florida drives the economy and creates jobs.  Here is a short video that shows how this happens.

New theme park coming to Central Florida will bring tourists & jobs.

Managing Director of LEGOLAND Parks John Jakobsen says on this WOFL FOX 35 video that the opening of the LEGOLAND® Florida theme park will bring tourists and approximately 1,000 jobs to the Central Florida area. To find out more about the new park, visit http://www.legolandfloridaresort.com.

Florida’s February 2009 unemployment rate is the highest since April 1976

In February Florida's unemployment rate is 9.4%. This is up from January's 8.8% and higher than the national rate of 8.1%

Comment on the efforts to improve unemployment situation from the Agency for Workforce Innovation:

“To help reinvigorate Florida’s economy, Governor Charlie Crist recently announced the infusion of $165 million in federal economic stimulus funds to directly benefit both job seekers and businesses,” said Agency Interim Director Cynthia Lorenzo. “These funds will provide critically-needed training and job placement services including summer employment opportunities for young people and assistance for Floridians at One-Stop Career Centers around the state.”

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Embraer opening facility in Florida

The new operations is expected to add 200 skilled jobs by 2011. Here is the complete press release.

The bio from the company press release:

Embraer (Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A. - NYSE: ERJ; Bovespa: EMBR3) is the
world’s largest manufacturer of commercial jets up to 120 seats, and one of Brazil's leading
exporters. Embraer's headquarters are located in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, and it has
offices, industrial operations and customer service facilities in Brazil, the United States,
France, Portugal, China and Singapore. Founded in 1969, the Company designs, develops,
manufactures and sells aircraft for the Commercial Aviation, Executive Aviation, and Defense
and Government segments. The Company also provides after sales support and services to
customers worldwide. On March 31, 2008, Embraer had a workforce of 23,878 employees
and a firm order backlog of US$ 20.3 billion.


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