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Colleagues with a Latino civil rights organization spent three weeks calling in English and Spanish. They found Spanish speakers waited 2½ hours compared to 36 minutes for English speakers.

The Florida Policy Institute's latest push comes after data shows Florida removed 408,000 people from its Medicaid rolls since April. Only Texas has surpassed Florida's numbers.

State data show that 10% of those who lost coverage were terminated because they were ineligible or hadn’t used Medicaid over the past 12 months. However, 82% of people lost coverage for procedural reasons.

A recent report detailing problems with Florida’s patchwork mental health system had reached conclusions nearly identical to those of a similar report from more than 20 years ago. The echoes between the findings are unmistakable.

The end of the federal public health emergency’s continuous enrollment provision means changes are ahead. State officials stand divided about the implications for Florida and its people.

The move follows the Florida Department of Children and Families’ decision to end its contract with Clearwater non-profit Eckerd Connects.

Family Support Services of North Florida will fully take over on January 1, 2022.

During an event in Florida’s Old Capitol, the hoops legend asked a group of high school athletes to talk about pressures they face and told them,"What’s important is to know that there are resources to help,”

A new assistance program is accepting applications for low-income renters and landlords in Florida who have been impacted by COVID-19.

Florida has seen a spike in Medicaid enrollment since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and the agency responsible for enrolling and disenrolling people in the health-care program is swamped.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed 21 bills into law, including measures aimed at better protecting vulnerable children and preventing inappropriate…

The state is quietly closing offices that provide help to people applying for food stamps and Medicaid in several Florida counties.The closures by the…