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Harris wants to cap child care costs and expand the child tax credit. Trump’s solution? Tariffs.
Harris has proposed capping families’ child care costs to 7% of their income and offering families of newborns up to $6,000 in the first year of the child’s life. Trump, on the other hand, has focused on tariffs as a solution to the child care crisis, despite evidence showing they would only raise costs for…
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Marijuana legalization is on the Florida ballot this November. Here’s what to know.
As public attitudes toward marijuana continue to evolve on a national level, many Floridians are following suit and supporting broader legalization.
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Rick Scott dismisses Amendment 4 as a gimmick targeting women voters
During a Zoom conference with supporters, the Republican Senator said the ballot measure was nothing more than a ruse or a gimmick to mobilize women voters in the state and repeated lies about abortion.
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Kamala Harris wants to end the Senate filibuster to restore national abortion rights
The Senate filibuster rule requires a 60-vote threshold for most legislation to pass, making it virtually impossible to pass abortion rights legislation due to Republican opposition. Without the filibuster, a law restoring Roe v. Wade could pass with a simple majority, or 51 Senate votes.
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Harris wants to lower grocery prices by taking on price gouging. Trump’s plan would increase prices.
Kamala Harris has said that she will call on Congress to pass a federal ban on price gouging and give the federal government more authority to prevent consolidation in the food industry, if elected. Donald Trump, on the other hand, wants to impose tariffs and reduce food imports, a plan that would cause food prices…
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Puerto Rican social worker in Florida highlights voting as tool for mental health advocacy in schools
Iván Díaz has seen how the Republican government wants to cut funding for mental health programs in public schools.
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DeSantis claims he’s “exempt” from law banning interference with Amendment 4
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody argued that she and Gov. Ron DeSantis are exempt from a state law prohibiting officials from using their authority to interfere with an election, and have a right to use their power to try and defeat Amendment 4.
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ACLU files lawsuit to extend voter registration deadline in Puerto Rico
The lawsuit highlights problems caused by frequent power outages at the Permanent Registration Boards, which are the physical locations where voters can register in person.
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Abortion restrictions delay necessary medical care, Florida physicians say in new report
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ six-week abortion ban “leads to preventable suffering” and unnecessarily puts women’s lives in danger, say health care professionals across the Sunshine State.
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Remembering Hurricane María: the data behind the devastation
The aftermath revealed deep vulnerabilities in the island’s infrastructure and response systems, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis and leading to a controversial assessment of the storm’s death toll, with estimates of lives lost reaching 4,645.
