Students as young as 14 forge entrepreneurial paths

As young workers struggle to keep up with Tampa Bay’s rising cost of living, educators have responded with programs aimed at cultivating business development skills at an earlier age.

By Brian Hartz
| 5:00 a.m. May 12, 2023
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Olivier Millour, Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay’s manager of partnerships and development; Stacy Baier, CEO of the Pinellas Education Foundation; and Alex Buell, assistant director of programs at the Pinellas Education Foundation.

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The affordable housing crisis plaguing Tampa Bay and other parts of the Gulf Coast has shown no sign of abating, and even though home sales are down 22% nationwide, prices continue to rise in many parts of Florida. According to March data from the Greater Tampa Realtors, the median sale price of a single-family home in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro area has risen 1.3% since March 2022, to $395,000.

Such trends are vexing, to say the least, and there’s no magic wand, economically or politically, that can be waved to bring housing costs down.