TALLAHASSEE — Florida is starting to pull apart as its economy rebounds, as some areas bounce back while other largely rural areas face persitent low wages and poverty.
“When things were bad, the whole state was uniformly in a bad situation,” chief state economist Amy Baker told a panel of Senate budget-writers Thursday. “As we have improved, we have started to see it pull more apart.”
Some areas of the state have always done “better than others,” but now there are “pockets of much stronger improvement than other areas,” she told the Senate Appropriations Committee.
