By: Max Baron Throughout the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, Florida’s public schools have continued to be contentious battlegrounds for the debate on mask mandates. Namely, Governor Ron DeSantis’s emergency rules have explicitly prohibited Florida’s public school districts from enforcing mask mandates in classrooms.[1] But as many students resume pre-COVID-19 routines, there remains a small, […]

By: Jennifer Harper As vaccinations have risen and health risks have started to subside, people have started to go back to work and the journey to economic recovery has begun. While many have gone back to work, and businesses have re-opened, lower paying industries and jobs have experienced a slower recovery.[1] Many of these jobs […]

By: Alyssa Vincent Over 600,000 people go missing in the United States annually.[1] In September 2021, one of those people was a young woman, 22-year-old Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito.[2]  In June, three months before she went missing, Gabby left on a cross-country road trip with her longtime boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, to explore the national parks.[3] She […]

By: Ashley Plotkin What is the difference between equality and equity? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “[t]he idea that sometimes sameness of treatment (equality) does not result in proportional fairness (equity) is one way that these words are distinguished from each other, even in similar context.”[1] In recent decades, America has worked toward equality in […]