Florida’s property tax amendment, grads face higher unemployment and weekly news briefing

About this episode

The episode discusses Florida's property tax amendment, the job market for graduates, and includes a weekly news briefing.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we spoke about what made it to the final version of Florida's property tax proposal with Douglas Soule, reporter with Your Florida and WUSF (00:00). Then, we heard from one of the co-sponsors of the measure Sen. Mack Bernard (08:40). Plus, we fact-checked some recent claims about the impact the ballot measure would have on local governments with PolitiFact’s Samantha Putterman (25:30). We also spoke about Florida’s job market with WUSF’s Gabriella Paul (29:12). And later, we shared some gaming and sports stories from across the state (37:20).

People in this episode

Guests: Douglas Soule, Sen. Mack Bernard, Gabriella Paul

Topics covered

• property tax
• unemployment
• job market
• local government
• fact-checking
• gaming
• sports

Keywords

• Florida
• property tax
• unemployment
• job market
• fact-checking
• gaming
• sports

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Your Florida, WUSF, PolitiFact

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