On Monday, March 4, Heather Haddon and Esther Fung of the WSJ reported that Amazon’s “latest plans threaten to steal sales of some of the [grocery] industry’s more profitable products.” According to their reporting, “The e-commerce giant plans to launch urban grocery stores that could offer a spectrum of goods that includes beauty products alongside […]
A political committee backing a proposed constitutional amendment that would increase the minimum wage in Florida is moving toward meeting an initial threshold for getting the measure on the 2020 ballot. The committee Florida For A Fair Wage, which is led by prominent Orlando attorney John Morgan, had submitted 55,284 valid petition signatures to the […]
Tallahassee, FL – The Tallahassee Economic Index (TEI) recently released numbers ending December 2018. Following a .75 point slide in November, the Index fell .65 points from 36.21 to 35.56 in December. This is the fourth consecutive decline in the monthly index. The index is a measure of Tallahassee’s economic growth. The index is not […]
Recently released job numbers show that the average employment in Leon County for 2018 was 146,651. This level of employment is 1.95% above the average employment of 143,506 reported in 2017. Reports also show that Leon County’s average unemployment rate for 2018 was 3.3%. This is 10th lowest unemployment rate when compared to Florida’s 67 […]