Stewart: 5,000 Leon County Jobs Did Not “Vanish”, Here’s Why.

During a recent presentation about the local economy at the Capital Tiger Bay Club, Skip Foster, the former publisher of the Tallahassee Democrat, stated that “In October of 2024, according to the OEV’s own data center, there were 163,592 jobs in Leon County. The latest reporting data – it’s down to 158,830.”

Foster concludes that, based on this data, “Almost 5,000 jobs have vanished in 18 months.”

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