Securing a Safe, Just, and Climate-Ready Future for Florida
By Bianca Majumder, Cathleen Kelly, Salome Garcia, Yoca Arditi-Rocha, and Katrina Erwin
March 16, 2021, 9:00 am Getty/Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post
Houses are seen along an eroded beach in Palm Coast, Florida, in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, September 2017.
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The effects of climate change and their inequitable distribution have become part of the daily fabric of life in Florida. Increasingly intense extreme heat threatens public health and air quality, and more powerful hurricanes threaten human life and infrastructure.
1 Recurrent flooding from sea level rise has become a widely known characteristic of the state, damaging homes, disrupting commutes, threatening water quality, and interfering with tourism.
Americans Want the Federal Government To Help People in Need
New Polling Illustrates Voters’ Opinions on Economic Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By John Halpin, Karl Agne, and Nisha Jain
March 10, 2021, 6:00 am Getty/The Boston Globe/Suzanne Kreiter
A woman walks with her daughter after picking up her breakfast and lunch in Revere, Massachusetts, on December 11, 2020. She is among many low-income parents in Massachusetts who have struggled to receive their promised free school meals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The United States recently reached a grim milestone: 500,000 Americans dead from COVID-19.
1 The country continues to claw its way out of the public health and economic crisis, which has hit low-income and other vulnerable populations particularly hard. As Congress and the Biden administration debate additional legislation to address the immediate economic downturn, as well as longer-term policies for national recovery, they should consider h