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Florida is the latest state to end the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation Program. The Department of Economic Opportunity announced that the state would discontinue the program at the end of June. Florida is the 23rd GOP-led state to end the benefit. A total of 4 million laid-off Americans will forgo roughly …

Joel Greenberg, a former associate of Florida Republican Representative Matt Gaetz and former Seminole County, Florida tax collector, plead guilty to six federal charges in court on Monday morning. Greenberg admitted to a federal judge that he knowingly solicited and paid a 17-year-old girl for sex. Greenberg struck a deal …

A Wisconsin National Guard Soldier has been charged for storming the Capitol during the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. Abram Markofski and Brandon Nelson traveled to Washington D.C. to attend former President Donald Trump’s ‘Stop The Steal’ rally earlier this year. According to court documents, an anonymous tip submitted to the …

President Joe Biden is signing an executive order to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors. The executive order states that federal agencies will have to include the $15 wage in new contracts by March 30, 2022. In 2014, the minimum wage was increased to $10.10. …

President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure initiative, the “American Jobs Plan,” includes a $5 billion investment towards community-based violence prevention programs. “The crisis on gun violence has destroyed Black and Brown communities for decades. Our pain, our trauma and our lives have been lost for too long without action,” the Community …