State workers are grateful to be employed. The current unemployment rate is not lost on them. For three years now state workers have received no raises. Now the Legislature is considering how much more to cut their pay. ...more

April 21, 2009

The message for many small business owners wondering how they will be affected by a White House aid plan for small business owners announced Monday is to wait - for now. ...more

March 17, 2009

Taken together, two reports from the Department of Labor suggested that immigrants were needed to fill the coming worker shortage. The Report on the American Workforce predicted that by 2008 there would be 155 million workers in the United States. The other, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, projected there would be 161 million jobs. ...more

December 20, 2008

Joilee Hazley wondered what all the people were doing in her front yard. ...more

December 8, 2008

Days after becoming Florida's new House speaker, Republican Ray Sansom has taken on a second job - a $110,000 yearly post as chief of the fundraising department of a state college in his district. ...more

November 20, 2008

About 100 people began lining up early this morning to apply for 300 job openings at retail shops that plan to open next month at the new Shops at Wiregrass. ...more

September 26, 2008

Five businesses have closed in the last year; storeowners complain of high rent, fees. ...more

June 29, 2008

Erica Woodard's typical day begins at 6 a.m. when she walks through the doors of Tampa General Hospital for clinicals, similar to an internship. ...more

December 16, 2007

George Edmondson really did intend to retire from his second job in 1999. The Tampa resident, who made his primary living in the insurance game, spent 50 years worth of fall Saturdays clad in a yellow shirt and orange-and-blue tie leading thousands of fans in a cheer that hadn't grown old in five decades. ...more

November 23, 2007