Monday s Afternoon Update | 2/1/2021
Chamber panel: Florida should promote business climate as it does tourism
Florida allocates $50 million a year to support its private-public marketing agency, Visit Florida, garnering a $3.27 return on every $1 spent to promote the state’s $90 billion tourism industry. Although Republicans in the Florida Legislature routinely attempt to disband the agency, its return-on-investment is not lost on business leaders as a model to broadcast other aspects of the Sunshine State that merit promotion, such as its business friendly climate and growth. Florida businesses “would welcome strong and focused messaging,” Florida Power & Light Senior Director for Economic Development Crystal Stiles said during Thursday’s Florida Chamber of Commerce’s 2021 Economic Outlook & Jobs Solution Summit. More from the Center Square.
greta. amy, thank you. and do you have a jobs solution? when you hear his idea, you know it is sure to draw some fire. congressman brooks joins us. good evening, sir. good evening. what is your jobs plan? you look at the hispanic center study on the number of legal ailiance in america and the number of jobs they have, that s $7.4 million, illegal aliens in america. a quick way to create jobs in america is to remove those illegal aliens from the community. that frees up 1.4 million jobs that american can seek. a couple quick questions. i assume you say get rid of .4 illegal aliens. how are you going to do that? by all means possible. it might be through the standard deportation process, it might be what the state of alabama has done in making it so onerous for employers to hire illegal aliens that they are much more careful in their hiring processes.
greta. amy, thank you. and do you have a jobs solution? when you hear his idea, you know it is sure to draw some fire. congressman brooks joins us. good evening, sir. good evening. what is your jobs plan? you look at the hispanic center study on the number of legal ailiance in america and the number of jobs they have, that s $7.4 million, illegal aliens in america. a quick way to create jobs in america is to remove those illegal aliens from the community. that frees up 1.4 million jobs that american can seek. a couple quick questions. i assume you say get rid of .4 illegal aliens. how are you going to do that? by all means possible. it might be through the standard deportation process, it might be what the state of alabama has done in making it so onerous for employers to hire illegal aliens that they are much more careful in their hiring processes.