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These are the most expensive and the cheapest places to live in Florida
Florida’s most expensive county isn’t Palm Beach or Miami-Dade, where many of its wealthiest residents live. The Economic Policy Institute’s newly updated family budget calculator shows what you need to earn to have a “moderate yet adequate standard of living,” in each US county, and the Florida results might surprise you. You might guess that…
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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.
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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.
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Vivian Rivera honored as 2024 Bilingual Teacher of the Year
The 2024 Bilingual Teacher of the Year is Puerto Rican! Vivian Rivera is a 4th-grade Spanish dual language educator in Chester, Virginia.
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Puerto Rican pride shines at Super Bowl thanks to Chiefs’ Isiah Pacheco
Kansas City Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco celebrated the Super Bowl victory on the field by wearing the Puerto Rican flag on his shoulders.
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How hand fans were used in traditional Puerto Rican courtship
Puerto Rican lovers used to have secret codes to communicate. These are their meanings.
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Puerto Rican artist Nora Maité Nieves lights up Times Square
The project makes Nieves the first interdisciplinary visual artist from Puerto Rico to exhibit her art as part of the #MidnightMoment initiative.
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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.
