Florida

Brightline is building a 168-mile extension to Orlando International Airport of its original 70-mile line connecting Miami with West Palm Beach.

Municipal bond issuers in the Southeast sold $40.7 billion of bonds in the first half of this year, a 6.3% year-over-year increase.

Funding transit infrastructure is one of the county's key initiatives and also reinforces its policy to reduce carbon emissions, increase mobility equity and promote transit-oriented development, says Fitch's Michael Rinaldi.

A proposal would prohibit fund managers at the State Board of Administration from considering ESG factors when investing the state’s money and require them to only consider maximizing returns on investment.

The Miami metro area saw the most private-sector job growth among all metro areas in the state in June and year-over-year.

Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said her proposed $9.3 billion fiscal 2022-2023 budget, with the tax cut, safeguards the county's fiscal stability and maintains critical services.

“In the Great Recession it took us like seven or eight years to get back to where we were pre-recession,” Florida's Ben Watkins said. “This time it was less than 24 months.”

Coming back from COVID, states in the Southeast are seeing their revenue streams perk up as economic activity resumes across the region.

Changing federal policies toward hurricane aid may change these events' credit impacts.

Florida’s unemployment rate has been lower than the national rate for 18 consecutive months, the state Department of Economic Opportunity says.