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Florida Board of Education reaction to FCAT scores is a disservice to students

For the year 2011, the state of Florida was number 11 in education ranking. The state received an overall grade of C plus, down from a B minus for the previous year, based on the annual report for all states...

Florida’s 2012-2013 budget: A perspective from Florida Atlantic University

On April 17, 2012, Governor Rick Scott signed into law the state budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. The budget was not kind to higher education, cutting funding to colleges and universities within the states’ educational system by...

Florida considering new Medicaid system

Medicaid is the largest health program in the United States in terms of number of recipients, serving approximately 56 million people. Enacted in 1964 under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, Medicaid provides medical services to low income and...

New Florida law a political and business dilemma for Governor Rick Scott

The Florida legislature passed a law prohibiting local governments from hiring companies that do business with Cuba and Syria, two countries on the United States list of state sponsored terrorism. The initial bill was sponsored by legislators from Miami-Dade...

Bank of America sues itself: Foreclosure ineptitude or conflict of interest

Bank of America has recently had run of negative publicity, and a good portion of it involves inept execution in its handling of foreclosures. Allegations of wrongful foreclosures, inaccurate title documents, and questionable foreclosure tactics, have not put Bank of...

Burger King: Can the new business model resurrect the company

In recent years Burger King has lost ground to McDonald’s and Wendy’s in the fast food burger business.Headquartered in Miami, Burger King has been a corporate fixture, and its’ decline has had an impact...

The supreme court and the affordable care act

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a sweeping piece of legislation with a lot of moving parts. There are 4 specific legal issues before the Supreme Court; however, the issue that will have the greatest impact on the future of...

The killing of Trayvon Martin and the consequence of "Stand Your Ground Law"

Trayvon Martin, a 17 year-old black male, was killed while returning to his father’s home in Sanford, Florida. According to various reports, Trayvon was walking home from the store on February 26, 2012, when George Zimmerman, a...

Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith, and Wall Street ethics

Greg Smith publically resigned his position as an executive director at Goldman Sachs. In his op-ed, published in the NY Times on March 14, 2012, Greg Smith said, ”The firm changed the way it thought about...

Politics, business and law: a tangled web for Florida Governor Rick Scott

Rick Scott, Governor of Florida, came into office on the promise of cutting the state budget and creating jobs. The rhetoric and promises of politicians running for office in the vacuum of the election primaries often run into the reality...

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Florida Board of Education reaction to FCAT scores is a disservice to students

Florida’s 2012-2013 budget: A perspective from Florida Atlantic University

Florida considering new Medicaid system

New Florida law a political and business dilemma for Governor Rick Scott

Bank of America sues itself: Foreclosure ineptitude or conflict of interest

Burger King: Can the new business model resurrect the company

The supreme court and the affordable care act

The killing of Trayvon Martin and the consequence of "Stand Your Ground Law"

Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith, and Wall Street ethics

Politics, business and law: a tangled web for Florida Governor Rick Scott

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