DeSantis Defends Efforts to Fix Unemployment Problems
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday defended his administration’s efforts to get the…
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DeSantis Plan Allows Restaurants, Retailers to Open
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Restaurants and many retail stores outside of Southeast Florida can start reopening…
Overwhelmed Jobless System Taken Down for Weekend
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s overwhelmed online unemployment-compensation system has been taken down for the weekend…
Coronavirus Could Hit Private School Enrollment
By Ana Ceballos, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Private schools and Florida universities might see drops in enrollment as the…
Two Companies to Bolster COVID Testing
The News Service of Florida Florida will be able to increase by 18,000 a day the number of COVID-19 tests that can…
FPL, Gulf Power Plan to Merge
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — In a move that would create a utility with customers from Miami…
Task Force Looks for Answers on Reviving Economy
By Jim Turner, Christine Sexton The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — With hundreds of thousands of workers filing unemployment claims and…
UPDATED: DEO Publishes Florida Unemployment Dashboard
On Monday the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity began to provide daily updates on their efforts to address Reemployment Assistance challenges. The…
Coronavirus Model Lowers Florida Death Projections
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) model, which has become the go-to model for coronavirus projections, has once again lowered…
DeSantis Revamps Leadership of Unemployment System
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday shook up oversight of the state’s unemployment-compensation…
State Steps Up Testing in Nursing Homes as Cases Mount
By Christine Sexton, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — As the number of infections in long-term care facilities approached 1,000, Gov.…
Nikki Fried Traveled to Atlanta Over Easter Weekend Despite Stay-At-Home Order
Reports indicate that Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, despite a Florida stay-at-home-order, traveled to Atlanta over the Easter weekend and appeared on…