01/27/2012 Miami – Governor Rick Scott officially welcomed America’s Best Contacts & Eyeglasses to Florida during the company’s debut in Miami-Dade County today in Kendall. America’s Best plans to open 20 stores in Florida in 2012 and create more than 200 jobs this year statewide, with similar growth over the next three years with the creation of 200 jobs per year.
The American economy is sustained by business owners large and small who invested their money because they saw the potential of our great nation. Companies from around the world should continue flocking here, but instead they are being deterred by a nation facing a trillion dollar deficit and a federal government with an insatiable appetite for more debt and intrusion into the lives of its’ citizens.
01/24/2012 Tallahassee, Fla.– Governor Rick Scott today joined business, military, veteran and workforce leaders during the annual Florida National Guard Day at the Capitol to launch a year-long effort aimed at connecting returning National Guardsmen and other veterans with job openings as Florida’s economy continues to improve.
1/20/2012 Tallahassee, Fla. – Governor Rick Scott announced today that Florida’s unemployment rate went down again in the last month of 2011 to 9.9 percent. A total of 5,100 new private-sector jobs were also added in December, solidifying Florida’s status as one of the nation’s leaders in job creation last year.
Download the MP3 Weekly Radio Address 1/20/2012 Hi, this is Governor Rick Scott. Today, we had more good news on the jobs front. Florida’s unemployment rate fell to 9.9%. That’s a 2.1% drop just in 2011. That’s a net of 130,000 jobs. That’s 130,000 families where someone wasn’t working at the beginning of the year [...]
1/20/2012 Tallahassee, Fla.– Today, Governor Rick Scott announced that Brunswick, Ga.-based ALM Technologies Inc. (a.k.a. Definitive Design Inc.), a high precision aerospace manufacturing company, has announced that it will relocate to Yulee in Nassau County in early 2012, creating 30 net new positions during the next three years. The average annual wage of the positions [...]
1/19/2012 Tallahassee, Fla. – “Today’s budget allocations put forward in the Florida House are exactly what Florida’s teachers and students need to keep our schools on a path to success.
1/18/2012 Tallahassee, Fla. – Today, Governor Rick Scott named Kenneth W. Detzner to serve as Florida’s Secretary of State. He will continue the standard set by Secretary Kurt Browning of overseeing orderly, fair and error-free elections and ensuring Florida’s elections system is secure and defended from fraud.
