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Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 4.20.21
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Gov. DeSantis signs online sales tax planâ via Renzo Downey of Florida Politics â DeSantis has signed the online sales tax bill into law, answering the question of whether he would act on the bill or let it roll into law without his John Hancock. An estimated $1 billion in revenue would come from the new enforcement of sales taxes technically already owed on purchases Floridians make from out-of-state sellers, but which few Floridians pay. DeSantis had until midnight to sign or veto the bill into law or else it would have gone into effect without his signature. Lawmakers sent him the bill on April 12. He waited until one hour left in the day Monday to send the alert that he had signed the measure. DeSantis never signaled his support for the plan. If anything, he voiced his opposition.
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Year after year, it s the same story: the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is rising, and pregnant women of color are dying at disproportionate rates. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association unveiled a national strategy on Tuesday that aims to halve racial disparities in maternal care through a combination of data collection, scaling existing local initiatives and lobbying for state and federal policy changes. Your health shouldn t depend on the color of your skin or the neighborhood you live in. That s just unacceptable, unconscionable, and we can have an impact where we can change the trajectory of racial disparities, said Kim Keck, president of the not-for-profit association, which represents the 35 Blues plans across the nation.
UnidosUS Launches Mobile Tour to Support Esperanza Hope for All Campaign
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WASHINGTON, April 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ UnidosUS (formerly the National Council of La Raza), the nation s largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, this weekend will launch the mobile tour of its
Esperanza Hope for All campaign. The mobile educational tour, which will run every weekend from April 16 through May 23, will take information about the COVID-19 vaccines directly into Hispanic neighborhoods across the country, including rural and urban communities where health resources are lacking or difficult to access. The effort is supported by the CDC cooperative agreement: Increase Vaccine Coverage Across Different Racial and Ethnic Adult Populations Currently Experiencing Disparities (RFA-IP21-2106).
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Free supper in the schools of Memphis now. Fairly soon, parents won’t have to do a thing. Everything will be take care of by the schools. Will teachers have to tuck them into bed next? Do the parents have any responsibility?
What kills me about these free meals programs is no one has to prove their neediness, they merely have to say they need it. I’ve been in schools where people taking advantage of the free meals included finely-dressed people in big homes with several cars.
70 Memphis schools offer supper to children now.