Educators and human service providers are struggling with cuts to their funding. In Florida, those cuts include afterschool programs managed by the public schools and by nonprofits like the Boys and Girls Clubs and the United Way. As Margie Menzel reports, the state Department of Education just cut 30 percent of the funding in 40 percent of the state’s school districts—with impacts coinciding on the first day of classes.
Florida Chamber of Commerce President/CEO Mark Wilson gives Tom Flanigan an overview from last month’s Technology and Innovation Summit in Tampa.
The federal government and Florida are cracking down on undocumented truck drivers. The move comes as the trucking industry has been experiencing worker shortages. Tristan Wood has more.
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of the Archdiocese of Miami is talking immigration on the latest Deeper Dive with Dara Kam podcast. He shares his thoughts on state and federal efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, and says you don't have to be mean to make America great.
Amid mass deportation efforts, some people are choosing to leave the U.S. Twenty-two-year-old Maria Martinez made that choice after she was detained and separated from her family in Sarasota. She has returned to Mexico, where she says she'll have to start over. WUSF's Nancy Guan followed her months-long journey.
After a 30-plus-year hiatus, the U.S. will again consider character statements from neighbors and colleagues of immigrants seeking American citizenship. WLRN’s Sofia Zarran reports.
An endangered sea turtle is back in the Gulf after getting spit out of it during Hurricane Helene. WUSF’s Douglas Soule was there for the turtle’s return last week to the ocean.