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POLITICS
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2024
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Miami school requires parental consent for kids to hear Black author’s book
Miami-Dade County Public Schools said the slip was sent out “in compliance with state law.” Florida education officials, however, called it “nothing more than a political ploy.”
Feb
2024
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Florida Republicans push bills to repeal gun safety measures
Six years after the Parkland shooting, state Republicans are pushing bills to strip away common-sense gun protections, while Florida Democrats introduce bills to honor gun violence victims through preventive action.
Feb
2024
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Republicans want to use a 150-year-old law to ban abortion nationwide
Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration, calls for the Justice Department to start enforcing the Comstock Act of 1873. The old law bans the mailing of “anything designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion,” which could include medical instruments.
Feb
2024
13
Florida Republicans remain focused on DeSantis’ culture wars
Skyrocketing housing costs and property insurance premiums, gun violence and the threat of climate change were absent from the Republican Party of Florida’s annual executive meeting on Saturday.
Feb
2024
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Feb
2024
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Biden demands grocery stores and food brands end ‘price gouging’ and ‘shrinkflation’
Grocery prices have risen by more than 20% since the beginning of the pandemic and in Florida, grocery prices rose 6.4% from Nov. 2022 to Nov. 2023. In response, President Biden is demanding grocery chains and food brands lower their prices and stop ripping families off.
Feb
2024
9
Biden policy to help IRS collect up to $851 billion in back taxes from ultra-wealthy
Using funds provided by the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS has already collected more than $520 million from 1,600 millionaires who had unpaid tax bills of more than $250,000. The IRS could collect as much as $851 billion in additional tax revenue over the next decade.
Feb
2024
9
More Floridians could lose unemployment benefits under new bill
Florida's Republican-controlled legislature is pushing bills that would give state officials more power to deny unemployment benefits to laid-off workers.
Feb
2024
8
Republicans cave to Trump, block border security deal they demanded
After years of claiming that border security was a “top priority” for them, House and Senate Republicans killed a long-awaited, bipartisan deal they insisted on amid pressure from former President Donald Trump.
