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Unsure of what titles violate new state rules, two school districts told educators to conceal every book for now.

On Monday, Popular Information reported that the Manatee County School District instructed teachers to make their classroom libraries inaccessible to students, or risk felony prosecution. The directive was issued as part of an effort to comply with new laws and regulations championed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R). It was based on the premise that teachers are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.

Independent accountability journalism. Click to read Popular Information, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of readers.

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Many wage theft victims are never paid a dime. Others are left waiting for months or even years, an investigation by CBS News found.

Wage theft is a nationwide epidemic that costs American workers as much as $50 billion a year, a new Economic Policy Institute report finds. In An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars a Year, EPI Vice President Ross Eisenbrey and EPI intern Brady Meixell examine incidences of wage theft—employers’…

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