NEWS REVIEW

in BRIEF

BY ALIA GAMEZ, STAFF WRITER

UNDER-PREPARED AND UNEMPLOYED IN FLORIDA

The nation-wide wave of unemployment rates has hit Florida in recent weeks. Florida’s overworked labor department is suffering an influx of hundreds of thousands of calls and filings for unemployment. The state pays one of the lowest benefits in the nation, capping at $275 a week, but some do not get to that point, with a website that is slowed down from the influx and only paying a fraction of those filings.

“I’ll soon have to go back to work and possibly get sick even though it would be dangerous for me since I have [had] pulmonary fibrosis. All so I can pay my bills,” senior Christian Garcia said.

MIAMI-DADE RATED WORST COMMUTE IN THE COUNTRY

Moovit is an app whose mission it is to paint a real-time picture of the fastest and best mode of transportation. Through location services, the app can tell its users which routes are the best for them. The app has amassed data from all over the country, Miami included, in its 2019 Global Public Transport Report.

The city of Miami has consistently proved to have the longest transit wait time, at an average of at 16.43 minutes spent idle. Miami was also ranked first in having the longest average distance for a trip in the United States. This pattern continues in other modes of transportation as Miami ranked #1 in having the longest average distance in walked journeys as well.

MDCPS ENROLLMENT IN SCHOOLS DECLINING

For the past five years, districtwide student enrollment from kindergarten through 12th grade has been steadily declining in Miami- Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS). There are still large numbers of people pouring into Florida, but many of those come without children.

According to Miami Today News, those that do come with children have been been enrolling in alternative options such as homeschooling, charter schools and online classes. This lack of student enrollment can be in part attributed to the drop in birth rates during the 2008 recession.

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