If every person in Florida got a job at McDonald's we'd have a zero percent unemployment rate. Would that mean we have a healthy economy?
The unemployment rate is given a little too much primacy as an indicator of overall economic health. All of our data seem to indicate the quality is not there.
We'd like to see more benefits created with these jobs. We've got three million workers in the state without health care.
Their real goal is not to protect the constitution but to protect Tallahassee's inside power brokers from the will of the people.
Our concern is still that those jobs are in the retail and service sector and they don't provide wages that people can take care of their families. The unemployment rate is not telling us what kind of jobs people are getting.
