It’s been nine years since Florida officially passed New York as America’s third-biggest state. Now, Florida is leaving New York in the dust again, this time on jobs.
Yahoo News reported on Tuesday that, according to the most recent Labor Department report, Florida claims more jobs than New York for the first time in the 41 years the government tracked these numbers.
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“The Sunshine State ended last year with 9,578,500 non-farming industry jobs, compared to 9,576,100 in the Empire State,” Yahoo News reported.
Ironically, it was work-from-home that led to the exodus to Florida.
Yahoo News noted that before the COVID-19 pandemic, New York claimed almost 1 million more jobs than Florida.
“Yet with unprecedented remote work options, the reasoning among many amounted to this: Why trudge to a cubicle in a biting blizzard when you can do the same job in flip-flops from a beach cabana? And the southern migration doesn’t look likely to slow anytime soon,” Yahoo News reported.
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“New York continues to struggle with its post-COVID recovery, surging crime rates in the Big Apple, and soaring inflation, interest rates and taxes,” the report continued. “In fact, more than 64,500 former New Yorkers left for Florida last year alone, according to analysis of Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles data done by the New York Post.”
But Yahoo News noted that other left-wing paradises, such as California and Pennsylvania, are fueling a “mass migration pattern.”
As a result, Florida in 2022 led the nation new-business formation, adding more than 1.7 million since January 2020, while also becoming the fastest-growing state in America for the first time since 1957.
And retirees are not driving the influx of newcomers. In fact, quite the opposite.
“Florida is no longer God’s waiting room,” Craig Studnicky, CEO of ISG World, a real estate firm that specializes in South Florida luxury residential developments, told Yahoo News.
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“We’re attracting businesses and young people to come from all over the country because of our low taxes and warm weather.”
Yahoo News oddly noted that all these newcomers “get to deal with a controversial brand of conservative politics — that may hurt the state’s image and economics in the long run.”
Besides the lack of evidence to support that, Yahoo News might want to consider that is the reason why Florida is a magnet.
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