February 2012 Archives
EDITORIAL: Use sales taxes for jobs, children
It’s time for state leaders to do something about online retailers, many of them out of state that fail to remit sales taxes on Internet purchases.
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State Rep. Hazelle Rogers: Why I oppose the new state budget
“It also drains the housing trust fund by $91 million. This concerns me because wages have stayed flat over the last decade while housing cost has increased by 51 percent. There is an affordable housing crisis in Broward County. These funds housing assistance funds could assist in remedying this situation.”
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Despite drop in housing prices, affordability in Florida declines for ‘working’ households
Wake up and good morning. It feels wrong at first. How can Florida — where housing prices have dropped like a stone for years — rank No. 2 behind pricey California as the state with the highest number of “working households” paying at least half of their income on housing costs? According to this new Center for Housing Policy survey, a third of Florida working households pay more than half their income on housing.
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