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Welfare Policy

  • News

    October 30, 1991

    To Have and Have Not

    Activists in Miami Beach's north shore neighborhoods say government-subsidized housing is crowding them out

  • News

    September 26, 2002

    Where Did All the People Go?

    A once-thriving neighborhood is now a ghost town thanks to Miami's multimillion-dollar housing fiasco

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    Welcome to the Cruel World

    Welfare reform has dramatically changed public housing in Miami-Dade County. Personal responsibility is the new refrain, and zero tolerance is the law.

  • News

    August 31, 2000

    DeFede: Deconstructing Alex

    He billed himself as a reformer, but a close look at Alex Penelas's record reveals a politician more in tune with ambition than innovation

  • News

    July 27, 2000

    His Sister's Keeper

    Is Darrin McGillis a noble crusader for his late sister's kids, or a courtroom junkie who thrives on drama? Both, actually.

  • News

    January 20, 2000

    Wages of Welfare War

    Down in the Liberty City projects, a growing number of women's voices are just saying no to workfare as we know it

  • News

    November 4, 2010

    Letters from the issue of November 4, 2010

    Down in the Liberty City projects, a growing number of women's voices are just saying no to workfare as we know it

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Governor Rick Scott Really Understands Blacks. Really!!

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke addresses Gov. Rick Scott's alienation from African Americans.Last week, Good Ole Gov. Ricky tried to explain to a group ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Bill Filed to Drug Test Certain Welfare Recipients, But Does it Go Far Enough For Rick Scott?

    ​Among Governor Rick Scott's cavalcade of controversial ideas is a plan to drug test all recipients of welfare in the state. Now Republican legislators have filed a bill to carry out a version of the plan, but it would only require welfare recipients with a felony drug conviction in the past three ... More >>

  • News

    February 24, 2011

    Rick Scott really understands blacks

    ​Among Governor Rick Scott's cavalcade of controversial ideas is a plan to drug test all recipients of welfare in the state. Now Republican legislators have filed a bill to carry out a version of the plan, but it would only require welfare recipients with a felony drug conviction in the past three ... More >>

  • News

    June 30, 2011

    Rick Scott wants to drug-test his brother

    ​Among Governor Rick Scott's cavalcade of controversial ideas is a plan to drug test all recipients of welfare in the state. Now Republican legislators have filed a bill to carry out a version of the plan, but it would only require welfare recipients with a felony drug conviction in the past three ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Daily Show Reporter Asks Rick Scott to Pee in a Cup

    ​You can bet that whoever let The Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi into increasingly unpopular Gov. Rick Scott's press conference today is going to get a dressing down tonight. The comedian, who we're assuming is preparing an upcoming piece on Scott for the show, asked the governor to pee in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Romney, Santorum, Gingrinch, and Paul Are All About the Whites

    ​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Campbell rates the racist credentials of the Republican Party presidential nominees. What happened to the party of Abraham Lin ... More >>

  • News

    January 12, 2012

    Mitt Romney is racist

    ​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Campbell rates the racist credentials of the Republican Party presidential nominees. What happened to the party of Abraham Lin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    "We're Screwed": Florida Republicans Punished with Crappy Convention Hotel Rooms and Loss of VIP Passes

    ​For the second time in the row, Florida politicians decided to ignore the rules of the Republican National Committee and moved ahead with their plan for an early primary. Like 2008, this means that Florida Republicans will lose half of their delegates at the national convention, but this time aro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Mitt Romney Thinks Rick Scott's Urine Test Laws are "an Excellent Idea"

    ​Should we just star calling him Governor Pee Cup? Because Rick Scott is now forever identified with spearheading laws that required people receiving welfare to take drug tests. Never mind the fact that the policy ended up costing the state money, or that the rate of positive tests was extremely l ... More >>

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