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Florida's quote of the day

| 9/30/2016

" It's important that we upgrade the service economy if we want to build a fully sustainable economy."

-- Richard Florida, author and urban studies theorist

Cashiers, cleaners, servers and other workers in Florida's gigantic service sector are a key to the state's economic future, several experts said Wednesday at the annual forum of Florida Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise Florida.

Diversifying the economy with industrial and tech jobs was also a major focus, and the chamber released statistics that said Central Florida is actually more diverse than other regions of the state, if you include Brevard County.

Read more at the Orlando Sentinel.

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