Effect on farming, hospitality? Negligible, some say - Naple

Three years ago this week, as coronavirus prompted scrutiny of the numbers and effects on workers besieged by shutdowns, Florida included 1.169 million workers in leisure and hospitality, 26% of them immigrants (only Hawaii and Nevada had higher percentages), according to the New American Economy Research Fund, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

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