Florida

As they move from Puerto Rico and between states, many Puerto Rican families face cultural, language and economic barriers while seeking better services for their children with special needs.

As the sky began to clear around 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, Madeline Colón and her husband, Flor Colón, decided to check on their home on Shadow Brook Lane in the Palmetto community, west of Florida. “It was the most horrible night of my life,” as she described the onslaught of Hurricane Milton. Fallen trees, flooded […]

Puerto Ricans living in Florida seek refuge fearing their homes won't withstand Hurricane Milton's impact

The correctional classification system doesn’t have the exact number, but for the first time, the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo got a sample that allows us to look at this historically invisible population.

In Polk County, which is more than an hour from Tampa and three from Miami, overall rental income rose an average of 53.7% between 2017 and the first quarter of 2022, a jump from $924 to $1,421. By percentage, Polk was the county where rents increased the most during that five-year period in Florida.