Funding Education: A History Lesson
When Florida’s community colleges were born, they were an example for the nation. Their funding was intentionally drawn from the state so that each college would have equal funding. They were placed throughout the state so that no person would be more than 99 miles from a college. It was a bastion of equalitarian funding, and a huge ladder out of poverty for thousands of students.

But soon legislatures were being courted by neoliberalism—a profit-over-people… Continue

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46% of South Florida homeowners are `underwater'

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250,000 Floridians to benefit from extension of unemployment benefits
By Jeff Harrington, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Friday, November 6, 2009

A bill headed for President Barack Obama's signature today would expand a popular tax credit for home buyers — and extend unemployment benefits. Nearly 2 million people out of work almost a year or more qualify....