Ignoring Climate Change is Not a Winning Strategy
Florida Republicans are so afraid of climate change that they’ve passed a law to never speak of it. As Florida is on fire, underwater, and unaffordable, our state government is rolling back climate change legislation and removing it from consideration in formulating state energy policy.
WBUR: Medical debt is crushing working-class people. Organizers in Florida hope federal funds can help
Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes learns more about how some local grassroots organizers hope to use the funds to relieve medical debt for residents. She speaks with Afua Atta-Mensah, chief of programs at the nonprofit Community Change and Tara “Glitter” Felten, a senior community organizer for the coalition Central Florida Jobs with Justice.
"I went to get groceries and someone had to help me in the line:" Thousands of Orange County residents struggling with medical debt post pandemic
Thousands of Central Floridians are said to be struggling with an overwhelming amount of medical debt following the pandemic, and according to Sam Delgado with Central Florida Jobs With Justice, it sits between 250,000 to 300,000.