Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In September 2020, Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Eagle to the post of executive director of the state Department of Economic Opportunity. [30] The long-troubled state DEO oversees the Florida unemployment insurance system. [31] [32] The department faced a backlog in processing unemployment insurance claims. The department brought more call ...
[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 ...
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.
Florida Citrus Commission. Florida Department of Citrus (FDOC) Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) Florida State Board of Education. Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) Florida Department of Elder Affairs (DOEA) Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Florida Department of Health (DOH) Florida Department of Juvenile Justice ...
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]
As Florida's size and population grew and spread south, the center of the state's population and the geographic center of the state changed. Using data from the 2010 U.S. Census, according to the Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, the state's center of population was southern Polk County.
Department of Commerce and Labor Formed 1903. Split in 1913 into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor. Committee on Public Information (CPI) Department of War existed from August 7, 1789, until September 18, 1947, and renamed the United States Department of the Army in 1949. Environmental Science Services Administration Formed 1965 ...
It is the largest, most diversified port in Florida, has an economic impact of more than $15.1 billion, and supports more than 80,000 jobs. [66] [67] Florida is the leading state for sales of powerboats. Boats sales totaled $1.96 billion in 2013. [68]