New jobs from Amazon and talent pipeline from the University of South Florida helped push the Tampa metropolitan area to the No. 15 spot on the Milken Institute’s 2018 index of best-performing US cities.
The Florida Chamber of Commerce projected that Florida’s economy is expected to hit the $1 trillion mark in 2018. Chamber chief economist and director of research Jerry Parrish said the state is likely to create 180,000 new jobs in the coming year — a pace that would exceed the national economy’s in job growth for […]