Transcript: Catching On To Florida's Economic Ponzi Scheme

LIANE HANSEN
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
09-06-2009
Catching On To Florida's Economic Ponzi Scheme

Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time 13:00-14:00 PM


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For the first time since World War II, Florida is losing population. University of Florida demographers recently reported that the number of residents dropped by more than 58,000 last year.

Essayist and Florida native Diane Roberts considers the implications.

Ms. DIANE ROBERTS (Essayist, Author, "Dream State: A History of Florida"): Florida has always had a tenuous relationship with reality. In the 1880s, we convinced the ailing and infirm that Florida was good for their health, despite the mosquitoes and the suffocating ...

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