Identifying Local Opportunities

1. Miami-Dade healthcare operator convicted of $56 million Medicare scam
• http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/15A8E3CAA2D7D0A8?p=AWNB
• Khaled Elbeblawy had three agencies in which he falsely billed Medicare treatments and services that patients did not need. He bribed crooked doctors so that the patients could qualify for the services which were then billed to Medicare, a tax-payer funded program.
• The problem is that there are some people who are taking money from Medicare which could lead to loss of many people medical help. It is also a waste of the hard earned money of tax-payers
• Medicare has the problem but the problem affects more than Medicare, it affects both the tax-payers and all of the people on the Medicare program.
2. Andrés Oppenheimer: Latin America's time bomb: the "ninis"
• http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/15A83B0B214F5418?p=AWNB
• Ninis are youths in Latin America that neither work nor study and they are increasing at alarming rates with 20 million of them in the past decade. They are expected to bring a greater inequality, crime rate and poverty in the Latin American countries. These ninis are also unlikely to get jobs in the future.
• The problem is that these male ninis usually join gangs or crime syndicates which in return incresed crime rates and homicide rates and the female ninis (which is two thirds of the ninis across Latin America) are getting pregnant which increases the amount of ninis.
• Kids who have no education or a very short education and that have no jobs, which in terms making it unlikely they will ever get a job which might lead to a life of crime.
3. Apartment demands prove costly
• http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/15A9366D47EFAD60?p=AWNB
• Apartment mortgages have increased to whooping $1.002 trillion at the end of 2015, which is the highest since 2007. Most of the renters in the nation are what is considered "cost-burdened renters" which means 30 percent of their income is used on housing. And the reason for these increased rental prices is the demand for apartments.
• The problem is that the demand for apartments keeps increasing, so the price for rental will also keep increasing making it harder for people to pay their rent.
• People who do not make that much money and can not afford a home so they have to rent an apartment.
4. Historical site being neglected
• http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/15A9366CBAAA0160?p=AWNB
• There is a historical site in Miami called the Miami Circle. It was discovered 17 years ago and it is a 2000 year old landmark. Except people are not respecting it and no one, but a few, are trying to save it and the government not the state are like putting fences around or even trying to maintain it.
• The problem is that if we do not do anything for it we will loose a piece of history and also that people need to learn to respect the past and care for it.
• Kids and adults who will never get to see the historical site because of the disrespect and ignorance of other people.
5. Jobless claims hit 6-month high
• http://infoweb.newsbank.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/resources/doc/nb/news/15A8E37879B1BEB0?p=AWNB
• The amount of people looking for unemployment benefits rose to a high last week since July but the amount of applications is at an all-time low. Applications for aid rose from 10000 to 293000 but these always rise since the holiday temporary workers get laid off.
• The problem is that more people are looking for the unemployment benefits even when not looking for jobs.
• The people affected are the one giving the unemployment benefits and the people who are unemployed too.