Fed projects highest growth for Florida since 2005
Governor Rick Scott highlighted a recent national index which projects that Florida’s economy will continue to experience growth in 2013 at a pace higher than any point since 2005.
A couple get a boat out as roads and businesses are flooded by the rising Anclote River during the recovery from Hurricane Milton on October 11, 2024 in New Port Richey, Florida. Milton arrived on Florida’s Gulf Coast late Wednesday evening as a Category 3 storm, causing extensive flooding and damage and came just after the recent catastrophic Hurricane Helene. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
Search and recovery workers dig through debris looking for any survivors or remains of people swept up in the flash flooding at Camp Mystic on July 6, 2025 in Hunt, Texas. (Jim Vondruska / Getty Images)