Friday greeted President Barack Obama with some bad news in the form of anemic job growth in May, with 54,000 jobs added last month and the national unemployment rate ticking up to 9.1 percent. Analysts had expected some 125,000 jobs to be added in May.

But the numbers only tell half the story. If you're working at one of the new jobs created last month, there's a better than 50 percent chance you're working at McDonald's. That's because the fast food chain went on a hiring spree in April, adding 62,000 positions, with some spilling over into May.

Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation imposing tougher restrictions and penalties on pain clinics and unscrupulous doctors Friday, commonly known as the "pill mill" bill.

I am proud to sign this bill which cracks down on the criminal abuse of prescription drugs. This legislation will save lives in our state and it marks the beginning of the end of Floridas infamous role as the nations pill mill capital," Scott said.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a discouraging May jobs report Friday, with 54,000 jobs added last month -- more than 100,000 fewer than expected.

Nearly 1,000 state workers gathered Thursday at the Leon County Civic Center as awards and recognitions were given out to workers who boosted productivity and found ways to save the state money in the past year as part of the Prudential-Davis Productivity Awards.

In total, 571 awards will be given out in 2011 for employees that collectively saved Florida taxpayers $473 million last year. Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll and Florida TaxWatch Chairman Marshall Criser presided over the program.

Gov. Rick Scott will embark on a tour of law enforcement agencies Friday as part of his signing of legislation aimed at combating "pill mills" throughout Florida.

Scott will start with a morning signing at the Fort Lauderdale police department, head to the Hillsborough County sheriff's office at noon, and wrap up at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement headquarters in Orlando in the afternoon.

Former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, who is in a crowded pack of Republican candidates looking to challenge Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, noted late on Wednesday that he supported the federal budget proposal backed by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., adding that he preferred his own plan to take spending back to 2007 levels.

Under fire from his Republican rivals looking to run against Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, state Senate President Mike Haridopolos issued a statement on Wednesday afternoon insisting he backed the budget plan sponsored by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

Every single member of the Florida congressional delegation voted against raising the debt ceiling on Tuesday with the exception of Democratic U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson -- but thats not good enough for Mike Yost.

Yost, who was the Republican nominee who took on Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown in 2010 and hopes to do so again in 2012, accused Brown of voting no on the proposal for other reasons. In an e-mail sent out on Wednesday morning, Yost insisted that Brown was following the party line and hinted that there were other factors that steered her vote.