Citrus County’s GDP grew 7.8% to $4.2 billion, and Manatee County’s rose 6.6% to $15 billion.įlorida in 2021 saw its total gross domestic product hit $1 trillion, joining California, New York and Texas in that club. The GDP of the region’s two biggest counties, Hillsborough ($91.4 billion) and Pinellas ($48.6 billion), rose 7.9% and 5.3%, respectively. Pasco County’s GDP grew the most, rising 13.3% to $13.8 billion, followed by Sarasota (up 9.7% to $21.4 billion), Polk (up 8.9% to $27 billion) and Hernando (up 8.9% to $4.3 billion). Adjusted figures in this year’s report indicate the region’s GDP actually grew slightly in that span, by about 0.2% - down from nearly 3.6% growth the year before, but growth nonetheless, at a time when the rest of the nation’s GDP fell 2.8%.Īll eight Tampa Bay counties saw significant GDP growth from 2019 to 2021. Those updates produced a few notable changes from last year’s report, which indicated Tampa Bay’s GDP fell by $2.4 billion from 2019 to 2020.
Bureau of Economic Analysis, which each December compiles county-level GDP data for the previous year, and updates GDP estimates for years prior. He has apologized for some of those comments, including when he suggested that people in 2022 were worse off than Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house for two years.The data comes from the U.S. Kennedy has repeatedly invoked Nazis and the Holocaust when talking about measures aimed at mitigating the spread of COVID-19, such as mask requirements and vaccine mandates. Revenue more than doubled from $7 million in 2020 to $16 million in 2021.įacebook and Instagram removed the accounts of Children’s Health Defense for spreading misinformation. In the second year of the pandemic, Children’s Health Defense continued its huge growth, according to a more recent filing with charity regulators in California. Researchers have found that the group is among the most influential spreaders of anti-vaccine misinformation, and the AP found traffic to its website had soared. and abroad, and doubling its revenue from 2019 to 2020. The AP documented how Kennedy and his anti-vaccine group, Children’s Health Defense, had capitalized on the COVID-19 pandemic – raking in funding and followers in the U.S. Kennedy has been a guest on Infowars, the channel run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and on the “War Room” podcast hosted by longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon, where he promoted his bestselling 2021 book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” in which he accused the U.S.’s top infectious disease doctor of participating in “a historic coup d’etat against Western democracy.” All three have promoted the lie about the 2020 election being stolen. Kennedy, repeatedly referenced both of them during his lengthy speech Wednesday.Ī photo posted on Instagram showed Kennedy backstage at a July 2021 Reawaken America event with former President Donald Trump’s ally Roger Stone, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and anti-vaccine profiteer Charlene Bollinger. Kennedy and the son of his slain brother Robert F. He’s expected to have a glide path to the nomination, with much of the Democratic establishment behind him. Biden has said he’s planning on running again but has not formally announced a campaign. Self-help author Marianne Williamson is also running for the Democratic nomination. “My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country,” Kennedy said. Kennedy, a member of one of the country’s most famous political families who has in recent years been linked to some far-right figures, kicked off his campaign in Boston on Wednesday and likened his campaign to the American revolution. launched his longshot bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination next year. BOSTON (AP) - Anti-vaccine activist Robert F.
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