Economic inequality

The Florida Policy Institute recently released The Florida Timeline to show how laws and policies from the past continue to affect Floridians ability to thrive.

A consulting group is tasked with identifying existing barriers that are inhibiting equity in Hillsborough County.

"There were families that couldn't afford to pay the fines and therefore couldn't return the materials," Chicago Public Library Commissioner Andrea Telli said. "So then we just lost them as patrons."

A new study looking at how much time people spend stuck in traffic links widespread economic inequality to a lack of access to public transportation.