Economic Growth vs. Everyday Life<\/p>\n
Numbers released this week by the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis<\/a> show personal and disposable income increased and the GDP that measures the total dollar value of everything produced in this country rose. Other indicators show a slower but stable labor market and a slower rise in the inflation rate. If the economy is so strong, then why doesn\u2019t it feel that way for so many Central Floridians?<\/p>\n Ladera Royal, an educator at Orange County Public Schools and member of the American Federation of Teachers<\/a> union, shares some of the challenges he and his colleagues face.<\/p>\n Dennis Harrigger, a retired OCPS school bus driver, speaks about his family\u2019s struggle with debt and affordability.<\/p>\n Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida<\/a> Director of Philanthropy Dan Samuels says they\u2019re distributing about 330,000 meals a day across Central Florida which is up from about 300,000 a year ago.<\/p>\n That gap between what the numbers say and what people experience is something economists have been studying. Amanda\u00a0Phalin, Associate Instructional Professor at the University of Florida Warrington College of Business<\/a>, explains the strain between the two and how experts describe this \u201cK-shaped economy.\u201d<\/p>\n The Florida Roundup in Orlando<\/p>\n Every week, The Florida Roundup<\/a> brings its audience up to speed on all things Florida. The show is hosted by Tom Hudson, co-produced by WLRN in Miami and WUSF in Tampa, and airs Fridays at Noon on Central Florida Public Media. <\/p>\n This week, the show is hitting the road and coming to Orlando<\/a>. Hudson joins Engage to talk about bringing the conversation to a live audience at Central Florida Public Media and some of the most pressing issues for our region.<\/p>\n 100 Years of Black History Month<\/p>\n This February marks 100 years since historian Carter G. Woodson initiated Black History Month in 1926. It started as a weeklong observance in February that coincided with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. It wasn\u2019t necessarily a celebration at the time. It was a response to the exclusion of Black history. <\/p>\n Harold Dorrell\u00a0Briscoe, Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life at Rollins College<\/a>, joins Engage to discuss the origins of Black History Month and what it means 100 years later.<\/p>\n Quilting as Black Storytelling<\/p>\n Quilting has played a significant role in the lives of people for centuries.\u00a0During slavery, Black women were forced to make quilts from scraps to survive bitter cold weather conditions. Later, quilting transformed into a form of expression and art. <\/p>\n That history is unfolding inside artist Lisa Moore<\/a>\u2019s studio at the Art and History Museums Maitland<\/a>. Quilting began close to home for Moore. She initially made baby quilts. Then after the sudden death of her brother-in-law, she made his children quilts of their father\u2019s clothes. What began as her way of comforting grieving family, also became a way to preserve their memories. Engage stops by Moore\u2019s studio to learn more about how fabric holds history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economic Growth vs. Everyday Life Numbers released this week by the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-307675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}