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Monday's Afternoon Update
What you need to know about Florida today
Florida's 2016 job growth shows continued success
Over the past year, nearly all of Florida's major industries have seen employment gains, and the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.8 percent, continuing a steady trend over the past six years. More from Florida TaxWatch.
Spanish, French and ...SQL? The push to teach coding like a foreign language in Florida
Florida lawmakers are again proposing an innovative, but contentious, plan that would put coding and foreign language on equal footing in a public high school student's education. More from the Tampa Bay Times.
Incentive cuts could stymie Orlando's hunt for higher-paid jobs, officials say
Cutting incentives could spell trouble for Orlando’s efforts to add more higher-paying tech, health and professional jobs — as it did in recent years with incentives for Voxx, Deloitte, Verizon and KPMG — to balance tens of thousands of low-paying hospitality and theme-park jobs. More from the Orlando Sentinel.
Florida CEOs discuss business and travel opportunities in Cuba
South Florida CEOs on the Miami Herald’s CEO Roundtable were asked: Have you ever been to Cuba? Do you plan to go? Why or why not? More from the Miami Herald.
Small Business Advice
Evaluate existing projects before you launch new ones
So many managers and business owners get trapped into focusing on doing new things. You frequently hear about all of the new projects they are working on, but very rarely do you hear about how they are evaluating existing projects. More from Jerry Osteryoung.
Business Profile
Stopoint
Miami-based Stopoint, founded by a trio of Haitian immigrants in 2015, aims to provide the fastest, easiest and safest service for the public to sell used electronics. Sales have rocketed in recent months, and the founders give back to help children in their homeland.
» More from the Miami Herald.
Florida Small Business
An entrepreneurial surge in Florida
Over the past four decades, Florida’s Hispanic population has increased eight-fold, to more than 4.3 million people. With that increase has come a surge in business ownership: Between 2007 and 2012, the number of Hispanic-owned businesses in Florida rose 34% to more than 600,000 — compared to an overall growth rate of 4.5% for all businesses. » Access full story.
[Photo of Juan-Carlos Libreros by Mark Wemple]
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