Plans for train service between Miami and Orlando could mean up to 6,000 more jobs and the potential for 3 million cars to be off the road in Florida. Read more about it in this article.

Kevin Gale | South Florida Business Journal

Florida East Coast Industries is planning a $1 billion project to develop a three-hour Miami-to-Orlando passenger train service by 2014, using a right of way that runs through the downtown areas of South Florida’s coastal cities.

Is a manufacturing rebound in sight? Orlando believes that the small companies will not only bring jobs to Central Florida, but also keep the jobs here as well.

Richard Burnett | Orlando Sentinel

After years of lab work, Dan Rini is finally setting up a factory to make high-tech, air-conditioned uniforms for the military. But unlike many U.S. factories of recent decades, it’s not in China, India or, for that matter, South Carolina or Alabama.

Two of Florida’s metropolitan areas plans for increasing their workforce in 2012 ranks on Forbes’ list for 2012.

Susan Adams | Forbes

Though Florida was hard hit by the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, and unemployment in the state sits 1.5% above the national average at 10.1%, in the first quarter of 2012, employers in two of Florida’s metropolitan areas are planning to increase their workforces at a rate that outpaces every other metro area in the country, according to employment services firm Manpower Group’s latest employment outlook survey.

With many people discussing an economic recovery, South Florida is following the trend with jobless claims dropping. Read more in this article.

Douglas Hanks | Miami Herald

Fewer South Floridians are filing their first applications for unemployment benefits, continuing a trend of stability for a battered hiring landscape that is now in recovery mode.