In the 85 years for which the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has calculated the annual change in real Growth Domestic Product (GDP), there is only one ten-year stretch—2006 through 2015—when the annual growth in real GDP never hit 3 percent. This is during Debbie Wasserman Schultz' representation of District 23 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Bright Star Pac investigates the GDP, unemployment rate, and labor participation rate numbers.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz' tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives overlooked Fannie Mae's excesses, resulting in the Financial Disaster of 2008. Unemployment levels in Miam-Dade still have not gotten better than in 2007. Miami-Dade County unemployment is now at 5.4% . The unemployment rate has gotten worse in Broward County over the last 4 months to 4.50%. Broward and Miami-Dade make up District 23, where Wasserman Schultz is running for re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Here are Early Voting days and times before the Florida Election Primary August 30th. What is of special concern to voters also is a class action lawsuit over the alleged rigging of the presidential primaries in the Democratic Party revealed right before the DNC, which looms over Debbie Wasserman Schultz in light of her own primary August 30th. An evidentiary hearing for the lawsuit will be held August 23.

The all-volunteer organization Miami-Dade SCORE helped small businesses in South Florida access more than $4 million in loans.

Piola will unveil a locally inspired Earth Day menu at its restaurants in Brickell, Miami Beach and Hallandale Beach April 19 - 23 to showcase the produce from the Roots In The City Overtown community garden and the work of the inner city nonprofit

Energy Kitchen announces the signing of an area development agreement for six restaurants in Miami-Dade County.

Carlisle Development Group, the largest affordable housing developer in Florida, and Miami-Dade County, held the ground breaking ceremony of Phase I and II of Brownsville Transit Village Apartments in Miami.