Best of the Blogs: Big Splash

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 4-17-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 4-17-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Florida Minimum Wages Fails Workers
By Megan Baker
Fight For Florida
Earlier this year the minimum wage was raised in Florida, but it didn’t make a big splash in the news.

Rick Scott Is Bad For Business
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
Lately, Rick Scott has been going around saying that Floridians know how to spend their money better than the government does.

State Tax Policies Rigged To Fail Workers
By Ronda Wallace
The Florida Squeeze
I have been preparing taxes for years and I have become known for getting my clients the largest possible returns.

How Marco Rubio Went From Backing Immigration Reform To Berating DREAMers
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee
ThinkProgress
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is expected to announce his 2016 presidential run Monday at Freedom Tower in Florida, or the “Ellis Island of the South,” so monikered because the center offered relief to Cuban refugees seeking political asylum from Fidel Castro’s regime between 1962 and 1974. 

Separating PACE’s Fiction from the Facts on Solar Power
By Toni Nelson
CleanEnergy Footprints
The Partnership for Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) is the public face of a complex network of firms employed by fossil fuel and monopoly utility interests.