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The Florida Chamber Foundation unveiled its 2024 economic and demographic predictions indicating that population growth will slow a bit, but job growth will continue to lead the nation.
Florida’s backlog of cases is more than 481,000, a massive jump compared to 2012, when there were only 17,000 pending cases.
Floridians don’t feel great about the economy. The overall sentiment remains well below average, and while our collective outlook has ticked up in recent months, it isn’t improving as fast as the nation as a whole.
Early forecasts warn of a rainy, wet year ahead, providing an ideal environment for mosquitoes to grow and thrive and creating increased risk for humans of contracting a mosquito-borne illness.
The bill would clarify that the State Guard can be deployed to other states under an existing Emergency Management Assistance Compact, which lets states share resources during natural and man-made disasters.
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