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Florida Has Blue Collar Jobs, But People Aren't Scrambling To Apply

Florida's biggest industry — tourism — is still hurting. But over the past year, the state has gained jobs in warehousing, delivery services, and home construction.

In this photo illustration, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburger meal is seen at a McDonald's on Oct. 23 in the Flatbush neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

McDonald's E. coli outbreak grows, with 75 people sickened in 13 states

The CDC said on Friday that dozens more people have been reported sick with E. coli linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder.

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, firefighters work at the site of an explosion at a restaurant in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the early hours of Wednesday, June 21, 2023.

Cooking gas explosion kills 31 people at a barbecue restaurant in northwestern China

The blast tore through the restaurant Wednesday night on a busy street in Yinchuan, the capital of the traditionally Muslim Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Volunteers from The New Florida Majority passed out more than 500 flyers at supermarkets in Hollywood on Tuesday, in English, Spanish, and Creole.

Facing Raids, South Florida Immigrant Advocates Want People To Know Their Rights

After threats of large-scale Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids across the country, advocates from some South Florida immigrant-rights...

Many people who are on Medicaid are also in college or taking care of relatives, according to health policy analyst Leighton Ku. That would make it harder for them to meet work requirements proposed by the GOP.

It's Not Clear How Many People Could Actually Work To Get Medicaid

Audie Cornish talks with health policy researcher Leighton Ku about the GOP proposal that would let states require able-bodied Medicaid recipients to work.

More Than 20 People Reportedly Killed In Iranian Coal Mine Blast

Iranian state media say at least 21 miners died and scores more were injured in the mine in northern Iran. More than a dozen people were thought to still be trapped in the mine.

Workers for the private company Indelible go door to door in Lee County, talking with people and handing out flyers on how to get help repairing damage from Hurricane Ian. Each worker wears a shirt with the words 'How can I help?' on the back.

Workers go door-to-door urging people to apply for Ian help

Outreach workers are knocking on doors in some Lee County neighborhoods, urging people to apply for aid to recover from Hurricane Ian damage. The deadline for FEMA applications is Thursday, January 12. The workers also are handing out information about non-FEMA recovery resources.

<em>White Fragility </em>author Robin DiAngelo says the question white people should be asking themselves is not <em>have</em> I been shaped by race, but <em>how</em> have I been shaped by race? Above, protesters demonstrate in New York on June 1.

'There Is No Neutral': 'Nice White People' Can Still Be Complicit In A Racist Society

White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo says that the status quo in the United States is racism, and for white people, that's comfortable. "We've got to start making it uncomfortable," she says.

Florida Reports 100 People Died From COVID-19 In One Day

The state's death count from COVID-19 shot up by 100 people Thursday, bringing the total to 19,112.

An ornamental palm tree stands in an empty field where there were once houses in Houston. A new study follows thousands of families across the country who sold their flood-prone homes to the government, to see where they moved.

Climate change is causing people to move. They usually stay local, study finds

Researchers looked at thousands of homeowners who moved out of flood-prone homes. Most stayed within a 20-minute drive, and their new homes were safer from flooding.

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