The COVID-19 stay-at-home order has seen many unintended consequences, one of which is that victims of domestic violence are now stuck at home with abusers for an unknown period of time. Florida is ranked fourth in the country for the most attempts to contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline, with […]

We currently find ourselves gradually coming out of a lockdown imposed by the federal government to help control the spread of the coronavirus. Without these measures, we would have had many more infections and even more deaths than the nearly 100,000 in the U.S. and over 2,200 in Florida, according […]

With two paths out of the coronavirus pandemic, — keep Florida on lockdown and risk a recession or reopen and risk public health — Gov. Ron DeSantis began to reopen Florida in phases on May 4. Regardless of when states reopen, it’s likely that the global economy will face a […]

On May 6, the U.S. Department of Education released controversial new regulations regarding the federal civil rights law Title IX.  As an addition to the 14th Amendment from the Education Amendments of 1972, Title IX states that sexual discrimination is not permitted in American schools.  The new regulations require alleged […]

Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began, Floridians were getting updates on COVID-19 deaths from two sources, the Florida Department of Health and the Florida Medical Examiners Commission (MEC).  Now, as Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing to reopen the state, his administration has ordered the MEC to not release its death […]

Before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many believed that the future of higher education would focus on a shift to virtual learning. However, recent studies cast doubt on the effectiveness of these courses as they’re currently offered.  While universities did not choose this massive switch, they should reconsider their approach to […]

With millions of Americans staying home, many are turning to online shopping to meet basic needs or make “comfort purchases.” According to Content Square, a digital analytics company, online traffic for retail companies like Amazon has increased by 15 percent on a global scale since the beginning of January, when […]

White House economic advisers are warning that as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, unemployment may rise to levels we have not seen since the Great Depression. Economic adviser to the White House Kevin Hassett explained Sunday on ABC’s talk show “This Week” that “during the Great Recession, we […]

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the stimulus package enacted into law March 27, offers benefits to public universities as well as students eligible for federal grants. As of Tuesday, however, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos made it clear that students who are a part of […]

After resisting calls for transparency from advocates, lawmakers and the media, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) has finally released data on the spread of COVID-19 in Florida’s prisons. The FDC, which oversees about 94,000 inmates across 145 prisons, has detected COVID-19 in 54 prisons, according to numbers it put […]