{"id":222229,"date":"2026-04-07T17:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222229\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:20:23","slug":"at-miami-event-desantis-texas-governor-tout-south-as-boom-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222229\/","title":{"rendered":"At Miami event, DeSantis, Texas governor tout South as \u2018Boom Belt\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 7, 2026 at 12:55 PM<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, Abbott hold event in Miami promoting economic growth <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Top business and policy leaders gathered at the Perez Art Museum in downtown Miami for an event called \u201cWelcome to the Boom Belt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The discussion focused on the rise of Florida and Texas as major financial hubs, and the role of the Texas Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Inside the museum, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and fellow Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joined business leaders and federal officials, including the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to talk about economic growth across the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They described what they called the \u201cBoom Belt,\u201d which is a stretch from Florida to Texas, as one of the fastest-growing economic regions in the country, driven by job creation and an influx of younger workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIf you look at the two most generations of the workforce that employees are looking for, its Gen Z and millennials,\u201d said Abbott. \u201cAnd those two categories of workers are relocating to the \u2018Boom Belt\u2019 states more than any other region across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Leaders at the event also encouraged companies and investors to look to Boom Belt states for future growth, saying the region is becoming a powerhouse for business and financial markets.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Hannah Yechivi\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/878c3ada-e5a5-4129-8c64-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Hannah Yechivi <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Hannah Yechivi joined the Local 10 News team in May of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 7, 2026 at 12:55 PM DeSantis, Abbott hold event in Miami promoting economic growth MIAMI \u2014 Top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-222229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}