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• Gov. DeSantis signs off on new workforce development program

  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a package of bills focused on workforce development, as well as one measure that would provide public money to allow high school students enrolled in private schools to take classes at public colleges and universities.

• Business Beat - Week of June 25th

  Get top news-to-know with Florida Trend's headline-focused video news brief, hosted by digital content specialist Aimée Alexander.

• South Florida has plans to attract more movie and TV projects

  Left on the cutting room floor after the state stopped giving companies money to film here, South Florida wants producers to know it’s ready for its close-up — and is willing to pay for the spotlight.

• More than 100,000 race to Citizens Insurance as hurricane season begins

  The state-owned “insurer of last resort” added more than 100,000 new policies between February and May — a result, officials say, of an ongoing customer purge by private-market companies looking to shed policies that are most likely to generate costly claims.

• Here are the Florida additions to the SEC’s list of companies misleading investors

  Four Florida companies are among the 64 most recent additions to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s list of “unregistered entities that use misleading information to solicit primarily non-U.S. investors.”

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