Terry Williams, the senior vice president of the Pasco Hernando Jobs and Education Partnership Board, has submitted his resignation to the agency's board of directors. ...more

June 26, 2009

Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America plans to lay off 81 employees in Tampa, according to a notice it filed with Florida regulators. ...more

June 18, 2009

With unemployment soaring, lawmakers in Tallahassee are fretting over whether to accept more than $444 million from the federal government. ...more

March 28, 2009

Florida was expected to hit a peak unemployment rate of 10.2 by early next year. ...more

March 28, 2009

Local unemployment is 12.7 percent. ...more

March 27, 2009

The number of jobless residents in the Tampa Bay area has topped 10 percent while the state unemployment rate hit 9.4 percent, according figures released today. ...more

March 27, 2009

Unemployment checks are going up $25 a week for jobless Floridians. ...more

March 24, 2009

Job prospecting within the insurance industry is growing year by year while unemployment continues to soar mostly everywhere else in the private sector. ...more

March 16, 2009

The public lexicon is changing as the economic downturn lingers. Phrases such as "stimulus package," "bankruptcy cram-down" and "mortgage modification" weren't in vogue a year ago. Now there's another newly familiar phrase: "forced furlough." ...more

March 14, 2009

The public lexicon is changing as the economic downturn lingers. ...more

March 12, 2009