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A Republican, Eagle was appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis as Secretary of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity in September 2020. Eagle was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2012 to 2020, where he represented Cape Coral in Lee County and served as Majority Leader and Majority Whip. Eagle resigned from the House to ...
In 1978, the responsibilities of the Florida Department of Commerce were split with the Department of Labor and Employment Security. In 1996, under Governor Lawton Chiles, Florida became the first state in the nation to place principal responsibility for economic development, international trade, research and marketing in the hands of a business-government partnership.
[5] [14] At the time, Panuccio was 32 years old [5] and was the youngest agency head in Florida government. [15] During his tenure, Panuccio wrote an op-ed in the Miami Herald about the departments efforts to combat fraud in the unemployment insurance program, [ 16 ] and an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal opposing the U.S. Department of Labor ...
Florida Secretary of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity and Florida House of Representatives [39] Nikki Fried: Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Florida Democratic Party chair [4] [5] Bob Graham: 38th Governor of Florida, U.S. Senator, and founder of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service [40] [34] [6] Ben Hill Griffin
In December 2020, DeSantis ordered the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to extend unemployment waivers until February 27, 2021. [41] Florida saw fast economic growth in 2022 and 2023, together with a record state budget surplus. [42] [43] Since May 2022, Florida's unemployment rate has sat around two percent, below the national average.
Executive branch agencies and departments nominally under the authority of the Governor include: [1] [2] Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA); Florida Board of Governors
Over the past quarter century, Slattery’s for-profit prison enterprises have run afoul of the Justice Department and authorities in New York, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and Texas for alleged offenses ranging from condoning abuse of inmates to plying politicians with undisclosed gifts while seeking to secure state contracts.
In April 2020, in response to the effects of COVID-19 on the Florida economy, Ron DeSantis increased Satter's responsibilities by naming him as the unemployment "czar", overseeing all responses to the unemployment crisis in Florida, taking the responsibilities away from Department of Economic Opportunity Director Ken Lawson. [3]