In January 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded $4 billion in Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding to Florida to help meet unmet ...
The law, which goes into effect July 1, 2023, [3] is already causing fear and confusion among immigrants, employers, health care professionals, and others. Below, FPI summarizes five things that ...
Florida continues to fall behind other states in promoting economic security and self-sufficiency for residents struggling to make ends meet. Currently, over 3 million Floridians face hunger, ...
Florida’s Department of Corrections (DOC), the state’s third largest agency, has had a long history of challenges, ranging from budget cuts, understaffing, an aging population that requires intensive ...
Groups have called upon Florida's U.S. Senate delegation to reject the billions of dollars in proposed cuts to basic needs programs that were included in the U.S. House of Representatives ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the fiscal year (FY) 2023-24 budget into law on June 16, 2023. After accounting for $511 million in vetoes, the General Appropriations Act (GAA) totals $116.5 billion, a 5.9 ...
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (TANF) provides cash assistance on a temporary basis to families with children at a time when the family is most in need. Oftentimes, Florida ...
The state budget for fiscal year (FY) 2024-25 totals $116.5 billion after accounting for $949.6 million in vetoes, a decrease of over $2 million compared to prior-year funding. Concerning funding ...
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the most important safety net protecting persons from food insecurity in Florida. Every month, SNAP provides food assistance to households with ...
The case of Grants Pass v. Johnson concerns a municipality’s authority to ban encampments on public lands. The crux of the issue is whether such a law creates an Eighth Amendment constitutional ...
Under 2023’s Senate Bill (SB) 1718, all Medicaid-accepting hospitals (i.e., most Florida hospitals) must ask admitted patients and emergency room (ER) visitors their immigration status. Hospitals must ...
This blog post was last updated on April 16, 2026. FPI updated the post to reflect 2025 Florida Statute 252.37(5)(a) governing how disaster recovery costs for federally-declared disasters will be ...
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