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The recent high ranking that Florida received from a national education publication isn’t quite the cause for celebration that it might seem at first. In fact, at the same time Education Week gave Florida high grades in some areas, it also pointed out glaring shortcomings which, if not addressed, threaten the state’s economic wellbeing. > Read the Issue Brief. |
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Here we are at the bottom of a deep hole, and now Gov. Charlie Crist offers us a shovel when we could really use a ladder. The crushing irony of a stubborn recession like this one is that the needs of ordinary families grow at the same time the resources available to the state to meet them drops. Like other states, Florida has seen a bigger decline in revenues than ever before. The governor's recent proposal to reduce or eliminate Florida's corporate income tax would dig the hole deeper, costing the state up to $1.5 billion that could help struggling families with education, healthcare and any number of other important services. > Read the op-ed by FCFEP Executive Director John Hall in the Miami Herald. |
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In addition to boosting the economy and saving and creating jobs, seven provisions of the federal recovery act are preventing about 425,000 residents of Florida from living in poverty this year, according to a new study. > Read the full news release |
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Like a scratched record that keeps playing the same song over and over, Florida's budget is also playing the same song—lack of adequate revenues to meet the growing needs of its residents. Soon after the 2009–10 fiscal year began on July 1, 2009, the Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research revised its estimates of General Revenue and of funding needs—putting the budget "in the hole" by more than $432 million. > Read the Budget Brief |
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