{"id":359541,"date":"2026-08-01T01:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359541\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:14:09","slug":"fl-ranked-8th-in-best-states-report-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359541\/","title":{"rendered":"FL Ranked 8th In Best States Report: Here&#8217;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWith millions of visitors each year to its beaches, major amusement parks centered around Orlando and cruise ships departing from ports on both coasts, tourism is a major contributor to Florida&#8217;s gross domestic product. The state\u2019s agriculture industry is also robust, with Florida groves producing many of the country\u2019s oranges and a winter vegetable industry that makes agriculture a year-round enterprise,\u201d the publication said in the state\u2019s overview. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. News &amp; World Report added, \u201cTourism, which pays a sizable share of the state\u2019s sales tax, also has enabled Florida to remain among the states without a personal income tax \u2013 adding to the allure of the nation\u2019s leading retirement haven.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWith millions of visitors each year to its beaches, major amusement parks centered around Orlando and cruise ships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-359541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359541","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=359541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}