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Miami-Dade Added Nearly 19,000 Jobs in April as Unemployment Rate Dipped to 5 percent

Media Contact: Maria Camacho mcamacho@beaconcouncil.com (305) 579-1341 (Miami) Miami-Dade added 18,700 new payroll jobs in the past year and unemployment decreased to 5 percent in April, from 5.4 percent the previous month, according to statistics released Friday. “We’re encouraged as we continue to see year-over-year job growth across sectors,” said Jaap Donath, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, […]

The Miami-Dade Beacon Council Launches Commercial Drone Initiative

May 4, 2017 MIAMI, FL (May 4, 2017) – Uplifted by this week’s well-attended Wings of Change Miami Aviation Conference, the Miami-Dade Beacon Council is launching an initiative to focus on a new segment of the aviation and technology sectors – drones. Drones – officially designated as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) […]

Miami Ranked a Top 10 American City for Business Foreign Direct Investment Magazine lists Miami as one of the top ten "Major American Cities of the Future

April 28, 2017 (Miami, FL – April 28, 2017) – Miami is once again being recognized as a top business destination with this most recent ranking by Foreign Direct Investment Magazine as one of the top ten “Major American Cities of the Future 2017-18.” Greater Miami joined New York, Toronto and São Paulo as foreign […]