Florida Leads States in February Job Growth

In case you were wondering...Florida led the states in job growth in February 2003. The state added 109,000 new jobs since February 2002, including 36,500 new jobs in the professional and business service area.

In related news, Governor Jeb Bush outlined three efforts he said will further help diversify the economy and help the Florida economy: securing the permanent secretariat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Miami; protecting the state's military installations from the proposed 2005 round of federal base realignments and closures; and fostering development of emerging technologies, in part, at state university technology centers.

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