Health Insurance for Taxi drivers

Tampa Bay, Florida
Tampa Bay News: Extend health coverage to those who need it

They could be your neighbors. People who go to work every day in Florida — painting houses, opening the bakery, driving a taxi, waiting tables, working at a day care or running a small mom-and-pop business that's barely breaking even. • It could be you. • These are the faces of uninsured people in our state, of working Floridians who don't receive health insurance through their job and don't earn enough to buy coverage for themselves. • Too many of them have put off medical checkups and screening tests because they can't afford them, only to discover during a visit to the ER that they have an advanced disease that could have been caught earlier. Too many have learned the hard way that health is connected to your ability to work, and a vicious cycle begins when serious illness goes untreated......

Tampa Taxi Drivers real life

For Hillsborough taxi drivers, long hours — and a dream of independence


TAMPA — For hours under the sun in a lot near Tampa International Airport, a harsh course in economics plays out.

Dozens of taxicabs snake into a queue. Men shout and engines start. The line barely budges.

Rene Jeune is up front now, having waited two hours for one customer. Farther back, Jean Bourdeau watches birds fight. He has just $25 in his pocket for five hours of work.....................

Taxi drivers post reward for info

http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/local/taxi-drivers-post-reward-for-info

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Airport Taxi drivers have posted a reward for information about the death of Mazen Abdallah. Drivers have collected a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of who is responsible for killing the taxi driver.