PB Post: Gov. Bush's jobs record falls short of predecessors'

[ryban]

TALLAHASSEE — State employment figures show that Gov. Jeb Bush has presided over the lowest job-creation rate of any governor since 1970, appearing to call into question his claim that his tax cuts have created new jobs.

Bush, who is proposing $285 million in new tax cuts this year, has for years attributed the state's creation of new jobs during his tenure to his tax cuts, which have totaled $11 billion since he took office.

"This notion has been proven," he said during a Jan. 12 news conference. "It has been proven in our state by the economic data that we see."

But an analysis of statistics from Bush's Agency for Workforce Innovation shows that every previous governor going back as far as Reubin Askew enjoyed higher job-growth rates than Bush — even though those earlier governors all raised taxes.

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PDF job growth chart:

http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/palmbeachpost/pdf/jobgrowth0131.pdf