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Can Casey DeSantis Win Florida’s Governorship?

The American Spectator 01 Apr 2025
With each passing day, it looks increasingly likely that Casey DeSantis, the wife of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, will enter the 2026 Florida gubernatorial race ... If Casey DeSantis entered the Florida gubernatorial race, it would be truly extraordinary.
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Another World is Possible (w/ Natasha Hakimi Zapata)

Scheerpost 31 Mar 2025
And so is good part of Florida by inattention to problems, whether it’s global warming or what have you, or poverty, what have you.
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The real resistance isn’t what you think it is

San Diego Union-Tribune 30 Mar 2025
Then there’s poverty. The headline rate is 12.2%, but factoring in living costs reveals a 15.4% poverty rate—highest in the nation. Yet we treat poverty as an abstract challenge instead of the direct result of unaffordable housing.
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Visions of America: 25 films to help understand the US today

The Observer 30 Mar 2025
This is a dire moment in the US ... Capitalists like to have all the power that they want, whenever they want it ... Nor, apparently, the rule of law ... Photograph ... AP ... a slice of life on the poverty line ... Brooklynn Prince and Bria Vinaite in The Florida Project ... .
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Are Florida’s Confederate statues coming back? Trump orders restoration of monuments

jacksonville.com 28 Mar 2025
In the last five years, around a dozen statues, monuments and plaques in Florida honoring Confederate leaders or soldiers have been removed or moved to a less prominent location, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Whose Heritage?" map.
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Wait List: Families on hold for childcare help as Florida fixes funding formula

Herald-Tribune Sarasota 28 Mar 2025
Importantly, the pending bills would change eligibility for School Readiness assistance to 65% of Florida's median income, rather than 150% of the federal poverty level, to reflect the skyrocketing costs of living faced by Florida's working families.
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AdventHealth Centra Care Initiative Encourages Community Participation to Spread Warmth Across Florida

GetNews 27 Mar 2025
With 12.3% of Florida’s population living below the poverty line, the demand for warmth has never been greater ... expressions of compassion to people across Florida ... Florida.
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Social Security helped slash elderly poverty to 9.2 percent in the 20th century – that ...

San Francisco Chronicle 26 Mar 2025
Rasmussen, Florida State University. (THE CONVERSATION) In 1959, more than a third of all elderly Americans lived in poverty ... I believe eliminating old-age poverty entirely could one day be deemed a triumph of the 21st century.
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Mike Campbell Doesn’t Know How He Got So Lucky

New York Magazine 26 Mar 2025
“There’s nothing special about me. There are a million guitar players and songwriters who are all really good ... Jim Bennett/Getty Images ... Heartbreaker begins with Campbell climbing out of poverty in Gainesville, Florida, thanks to his guitar skills ... ....
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Three parents seek appeal in fight over Florida school book review process

Sun Sentinel 17 Mar 2025
... state review process,” the three parents’ lawyers, who are from the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida, the Democracy Forward Foundation and the Southern Poverty Law Center, wrote.
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Sure, drop the property tax: A state income tax would be fairer | Editorial

Sun Sentinel 15 Mar 2025
Florida has a new and dubious distinction ... The less money you earn in Florida, the more of every dollar you pay in taxes ... In 2021, the Education Law Center said Florida’s high-poverty counties averaged 12% — or $1,492 — less per pupil than others.
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Bohanon Foundation to hold Playmakers Tailgate Party April 11

Lehigh Acres Citizen 14 Mar 2025
Bohanon, a former collegiate and NFL fullback, returned to his hometown in Southwest Florida to pursue his vision of ending generational poverty for at-risk youth.
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I'm a security guard for the 1 percent. These are the dangerous Spring Break hotspots ...

The Daily Mail 13 Mar 2025
The 24-year-old, from West Palm Beach, Florida is said to have arrived just days earlier to meet up with a man she met online ... In September 2024, a 'do not travel' advisory was issued for Haiti, which has long been plagued by violence and poverty.
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