Over the past 10 years, records show SeaWorld Entertainment has earned nearly $193 million in pretax profits. But it has paid less than $8 million in total income taxes, according to an Orlando Sentinel review of SeaWorld’s financial statements. That works out to a tax rate of 4 percent – over an entire decade.
Much of the responsibility to slow the spread of the coronavirus falls upon individual action, and the collective efforts of people working to keep themselves and those around them healthy. Whether you can work or study from home, or if your bosses are opening the doors once more, there are still ways to protect yourself as your governor opens your state back up.
On April 1, thousands of low-income Floridians living in federally subsidized apartments received a startling letter. Their rent was going up.
First, they lost their mom. Then, not even a month later, their father died — both victims of the coronavirus. Now, all that was left was for their two adult children to empty their Poinciana home.
Beau Guyott, 46, is a career hospitality worker who hopes to showcase the plight of the industry – and Florida’s broken unemployment system – as he walks from West Palm Beach to the state capital in Tallahassee, interviewing restaurant owners and workers along the way.