Fishkind Conversations: Calling out 'bad math' of inflated jobs numbers

By Nicole Darden Creston

Published October 26, 2021 at 4:14 AM EDT

Hank Fishkind. Photo: Matthew Peddie, WMFE

New data estimates that Florida’s payroll employment jumped by 84,000 in September.

But economic analyst Hank Fishkind tells WMFE’s Nicole Darden Creston that estimate inflates the job numbers. Long story short, the employment picture isn’t bad. Just the math.

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Nicole Darden Creston

Nicole came to Central Florida to attend Rollins College and started working for Orlando’s ABC News Radio affiliate shortly after graduation. She joined Central Florida Public Media in 2010. As a field reporter, news anchor and radio show host in the City Beautiful, she has covered everything from local arts to national elections, from extraordinary hurricanes to historic space flights, from the people and procedures of Florida’s justice system to the changing face of the state’s economy.

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