Florida's workforce numbers just shy of nine million, with some 250,000 new workers arriving each year. And they're not just coming from Idaho, Michigan, or Ohio.
Today, over one in five Sunshine State workers was born outside the United States, many from predicable areas. Between 1993 and 2000, the number of Florida workers born in Cuba grew by 22 percent, Jamaica by 40 percent, Haiti by 54 percent, and Columbia by 68 percent.
In the last decade, Florida's Hispanic population has made a particular impact, as evidenced by voice prompts to “press one for Spanish,” a large and growing roster of Hispanic television and radio stations, and the appearance of Spanish-language workplace posters urging “cuidado” (“caution” in Spanish, to you single-language speakers).
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