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Miami-Dade County’s seasonally adjusted, non-farm unemployment rate dropped to 5.9 percent in August, down from 6.1 percent in July, according to state numbers released Friday.

It’s 2025 in Brevard County, and here is what you’re likely to see.

Federal regulation has exacted a “staggering” toll on the U.S. economy to the tune of 2 percentage points a year from 1949 to 2005, University of Central Florida economist Sean Snaith reports in a recent forecast.

The average price of gas in the Orlando area dropped just below $2.03 per gallon on Monday, according to AAA.

In December 2011, National Basketball Association (NBA) team owners and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) entered into a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). The term of the CBA is ten NBA seasons, from December 8, 2011 through June 30, 2021. However, the NBA and the NBPA each have an option to terminate the agreement effective as of June 30, 2017 following the sixth season of the current CBA; the options must be exercised on or before December 15, 2016.

As the Fed’s next policy-setting meeting looms, officials still appear to be mostly trigger-shy.

The ripple effects of wage hikes haven’t been large enough to get workers into “living wage territory.”

The unemployment rate dropped in Miami-Dade County last month as the economy kept growing — but underlying trends behind the statistics suggest that jobless numbers won’t fall much further.

The promised financial impact of the All Aboard Florida train is large: $6.4 billion infused into the state’s economy by 2023, $2.4 billion in pay, benefits and taxes for labor through 2021 and 10,000 construction jobs each year through 2017.