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Hillsborough County Commission approves financial aid to companies to create jobs listen
11/15/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: incentives, welfare, Hillsborough County Commission
Today Hillsborough County Commission approved a series of government incentives to private businesses if they create new jobs in the county. One company is called Digital Risk. They’re expected to create 1000 new jobs in Florida and 100 to 600 of them could be in Hillsborough. Ron Barton, Hillsborough’s director of economic development, said the county agreed to pay Digital Risk a base of $1000 per job plus what are called local bonuses.
Commissioners unanimously approved the compensation ...
Be the first to commentGroup of Catholic Nuns Challenges Mitt Romney to Experience What It Is to Be Poor
08/09/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Nuns on the Bus, NETWORK, Sister Simone Campbell, Mitt Romney, working poor, foodstamps, welfare, TANF
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today— Catholic nuns want former Massachussetts Governor Mitt Romney and who’s personal worth is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars—they want him to know what it’s like for struggling families across the country. We’ll talk with a leading activist nun in just a moment. But first- four listener comments about yesterday’s interview with Michelle Williams- she is working with the family of Javon Neal- the 16 yea...
1 commentsHear Aasif Mandvi from The Daily Show challenge FL Gov. Rick Scott on drug testing welfare recipients listen
12/07/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rick Scott, drug testing, welfare, tanf
After Florida Governor Rick Scott's budget presentation Wednesday afternoon, he took questions from reporters. Even from Comedy Central’s Aasif Mandvi, a correspondent from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Mandvi took aim at the new Florida law supported by Governor Scott that requires drug tests for low-income people applying for government assistance. He asked the governor for a urine sample.
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ACLU awaits challenge of a Florida law that requires welfare applicants to take a drug test listen
09/30/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Louis Lebron, ACLU, Rick Scott, DCF, welfare
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida is awaiting ruling on whether or not drug testing welfare recipients is constitutional. The law that took effect in July is being challenged by a single father who refused to subject himself to an unwarranted drug test.
Louis Lebron is a 35-year-old UCF student and single father. He is also the sole caregiver to his mother who has a disability. And he’s a veteran of the Navy. When he was told he would have to take ...
Be the first to commentPreliminary welfare drug test results contrary to Governor Scott's claims
08/26/11 Lisa Marzilli, Beth BellLast Call Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: ACLU of Florida, Baylor Johnson, Governor Rick Scott, mandatory drug testing, welfare, CNN, T.J. Holmes, Tampa Tribune, ACLU
On today's Last Call we were joined by Baylor Johnson, Online Advocacy Coordinator for the ACLU of Florida who talked about the mandatory drug testing of welfare recipients in Florida, ordered by Governor Rick Scott. The program went into effect July 1.
This week the Tampa Tribune published preliminary findings ...
3 commentsFilm shows Guilani's controversial tenure as NYC mayor listen
01/28/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rudy Giuliani, welfare
One of the accomplishments that Rudy Guiliani boasts of on the campaign trail is how he was able to move so many people off the welfare rolls in New York as mayor in the 1990s. But as the 2006 documentary, Guiliani Time depicts, it came at a huge cost to many of those people who were on welfare.
Kevin Keating was the director of that film, and tells WMNF why he devotes so much time in his film to that part of Guiliani's tenure in New York.
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