The high cost of high school dropouts
- December 15, 2015
- / Randy Hammer
- / education
How costly is the decision to drop out of high school? The average dropout can expect to earn $44,000 a year less than a person who earns a diploma and graduates from college with a four-year degree.
Finding home sweet home can be a tough sell
- December 14, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / economy
Pensacola is short 3,000 housing units to meet the need, as national data finds the number of people squeezed to afford housing is on the rise.
How one community uses coaching to overcome poverty
- December 14, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
One Boston-area program uses one-on-one coaching to help women work their way out of poverty. It's a lesson Pensacola could heed if we wanted to hear it.
Ripley's believe it or not: Pay Florida teachers based on their high school test scores
- December 14, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
State lawmakers have come up with a peculiar plan to award teachers bonuses based on the SAT or ACT scores they got in high school.
Where is Pensacola's middle class?
- December 11, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / economy
Projects like Navy Federal are helping to boost the Pensacola metro area's middle class, something that is key as the middle class gets hollowed out.
Tax cuts are all that's on Tallahassee's mind
- December 11, 2015
- / Carlton Proctor
- / economy
At the Greater Pensacola Chamber's legislative luncheon the talk was all of tax cuts and other raw meat for the 2016 political season.
Shannon's Window: Sandy Sansing's smart money
- December 11, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
Sandy Sansing's $100,000 over two years for Escambia schools to boost computer education, show what economic development investment could look more like.
How to thrive in uncertainty
- December 10, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / training-development
How can you survive, and even thrive, when uncertainty is the watch-word of the day in the business world? Read on.
How open-air kindergarten works in Tokyo
- December 9, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / early-learning
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How one Japanese architect's vision of the ultimate kindergarten classroom could make you rethink early education.
What's behind the Pockets of Poverty data?
- December 9, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
The Pockets of Poverty report shows the depth and breadth of poverty in the Pensacola metro area. Now peek behind the data.