Many Promises, Few Jobs: The Rick Scott Jobs Record

What Rick Scott's Job Record REALLY Looks Like
MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 06: Florida Governor Rick Scott address the media after touring the site of hte start-up of PortMiami's dredging project on December 6, 2013 in Miami, Florida. The project is deepening the Ports channel to minus 50/52 feet which will make it the only U.S. Atlantic port south of Virginia that will be able to accommodate the super-sized container vessels that will begin passing through the expanded Panama Canal in 2015. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 06: Florida Governor Rick Scott address the media after touring the site of hte start-up of PortMiami's dredging project on December 6, 2013 in Miami, Florida. The project is deepening the Ports channel to minus 50/52 feet which will make it the only U.S. Atlantic port south of Virginia that will be able to accommodate the super-sized container vessels that will begin passing through the expanded Panama Canal in 2015. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Gov. Rick Scott campaigned in 2010 on a promise to create 700,000 jobs and has crisscrossed the state ever since, welcoming employers and proclaiming, "It's Working." But the numbers show that the jobs Scott can most directly deliver to the state are the slowest to arrive.

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