FlaglerLive | June 25, 2018
Palm Coast’s Sea Ray Boats plant, one of the top five employers in the county, with some 440 employees, is shutting down as Brunswick corp. abandons the yacht line.
FlaglerLive | September 4, 2017
At the end of his last State of the Union message to Congress in 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt outlined an ambition plan for a “Second Bill of Rights” to ensure “”economic security and independence.”
FlaglerLive | April 21, 2017
The number of unemployed in Flagler county fell sharply in March, from 2,482 to 2,214, a drop of 268, an impressive 11 percent decline, with work activity especially pronounced in construction.
FlaglerLive | August 26, 2016
The losses bode poorly for Palm Coast Data, which at one point a decade ago was the city’s largest private employer. Its parent company’s revenue is now almost synonymous with its own, and it’s a fifth of what it was 10 years ago.
FlaglerLive | August 27, 2013
Consumer confidence among Floridians remained in August at 77, the same as the July after that number was revised downward, the University of Florida’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research reported today. Three of the five components that make up the index declined while two increased, suggesting increased pessimism.
FlaglerLive | February 9, 2011
More than 1,000 applicants–about a fifth of the county’s total unemployed–were expected on Wednesday alone, the first day of hiring at the two new restaurants, in an sign of enduring economic hardship.
FlaglerLive | September 29, 2010
The 2009 population figures mean that Flagler will almost certainly not cross into six-figure territory when decennial census figures are announced. Figures on housing, income, poverty and insurance were also released.
FlaglerLive | September 29, 2010
Detailed, charted table of the Census Bureau’s employment, income and labor data for Flagler County and Palm Coast, 2009 American Community Survey.
FlaglerLive | September 29, 2010
Detailed, charted table of the Census Bureau’s population and demographics data for Flagler County and Palm Coast, 2009 American Community Survey.
FlaglerLive | September 29, 2010
Detailed, charted table of the Census Bureau’s social profile (marriages, divorces, origins) data for Flagler County and Palm Coast, 2009 American Community Survey.
FlaglerLive | September 29, 2010
Detailed, charted table of the Census Bureau’s housing, development and real estate data for Flagler County and Palm Coast, 2009 American Community Survey.
FlaglerLive | September 25, 2010
Oliver Stone’s new “Wall Street” is worth the ride, but it’s less caffeinated than the original, and Stone gives in to sentimentalism and nostalgia where polemic serves him better.
FlaglerLive | September 21, 2010
False economic recovery, changing the rules of comp plan amendments, dead voters still active in Florida, how Florida wasted taxdollars in the stock-market, and more.
FlaglerLive | June 4, 2010
Despite the surge in employment, signs are grim for sustained job recovery as private-sector and construction jobs lag.
FlaglerLive | May 7, 2010
Job creation improved by the largest margin in four years in May, solidifying gains of 559,000 jobs in the past three months.
FlaglerLive | April 20, 2010
The Florida Legislature has balanced the budget by taking money from the transportation trust fund. It’s a short-sighted solution with dire consequences, argues Mark Wilson, president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce.
FlaglerLive | April 17, 2010
While Florida’s unemployment rate continues to break post-Depression records, Flagler’s may be steadying downward.
Pierre Tristam | April 15, 2010
I’m about to head out to Palm Coast Parkway and Old Kings Road where the tea party folks are holding their latest rally against (fill in the blanks).
FlaglerLive | January 28, 2010
Philip A. Farruggio argues that the United States is forgetting the lessons of 1930s Germany–and Sinclair Lewis’ prophetic warnings–at its own risk.
Pierre Tristam | January 28, 2010
There’s too much reaching for the old magic–which is just the problem: this lunge for “magic,” this desire to make the impossible real, when it should be the other way around.
FlaglerLive | January 28, 2010
“We don’t quit. I don’t quit. Let’s seize this moment — to start anew, to carry the dream forward, and to strengthen our union once more,” Obama concluded in his first State of the Union speech.
FlaglerLive | January 23, 2010
One in six working-age adult is out of work in Flagler County, the highest proportion in the county’s history.
Pierre Tristam | December 29, 2009
“All prophesies are wrong, therefore this one will be wrong,” Orwell said. So here are mine for the coming year of our blogs, 2010.
FlaglerLive | December 24, 2009
An accident, a death, 300 stranded passengers: Disney’s monorail system is in disarray. 911 calls included.
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