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“Today, more men and women are out of work than ever before in our nation’s history,” the narrator [of a Rubio campaign ad] says. “People paying more in taxes than they will for food, housing and clothing combined.”

The February jobs report due from the Labor Department tomorrow will give us a fresh indication as to whether the U.S. economy is being slowed down by a combination of rock-bottom energy prices and market turbulence overseas.

Disney is coming off its most successful quarterly earnings report in company history, but many employees at Orlando parks learned their hours would be cut.

Last year in Volusia County was the busiest for new home construction since before the Great Recession. Local builders began the new year by continuing to pick up the pace.

The Republican candidates for president gathered Saturday in Greenville, South Carolina, for their final debate before the Palmetto State’s primary next week, and CNN’s Reality Check Team spent the night putting their statements and assertions to the test.

The Clearwater Marine Aquarium had a $2 billion regional impact over the past four years and continues to grow even after the initial boom from the Hollywood film that made it famous, according to a study released Friday.

A growing number of corporate leaders and economists see mounting risk of the U.S. tipping into a recession, a nod to headwinds posed by the global growth slowdown and early-year convulsions in financial markets.

The Canadian dollar has gotten weaker and weaker the last few years, so it costs Canadians more to pay for anything from a can of peas to a vacation condo.

Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs joined distinguished panelists, economists and guests at the Orange County Convention Center for the 2016 Economic Summit on Thursday, Jan. 21. Immediately following the Economic Summit, Mayor Jacobs hosted the inaugural Florida TechMatch, an event that paves the way for local tech companies to build relationships and contracts with national industry leaders.

Economics is a subject that most of us scratch our heads at, but for Sean Snaith, the director of the UCF Institute for Economic Competitiveness, it is a passion that has grown throughout a lifetime.