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The Census undercounted thousands of Florida residents in the 2020 census. It might mean less federal funding and one less U.S. congressional seat.

United Partners for Human Services re-ran its Tale of Two Tally’s article recently highlighting the inequities that exist in preventing all of our neighbors from achieving economic mobility and the impacts on ones quality of life. As the CEO of CareerSource Capital Region, the Local Workforce Development Board, our goal is to supply the talent that the employer community needs in Gadsden, Leon and Wakulla counties. As you might imagine, providing the skills required is a daily challenge for many reasons. COVID-19 has caused over 10,000 people in our labor market to no longer be actively loo...

Our community is witnessing and feeling the effects as one of the most economically segregated regions in the country, now more than ever with compounding effects of COVID-19. We have all read the articles and seen the reports stating the rate of poverty in Tallahassee is growing and among those most affected are single mothers and people of color. We often get asked how poverty has become so prevalent especially when social and human service nonprofit organizations exist to “meet the needs of those in crisis.” While our agencies exist to indeed provide that true safety net, funding has n...