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Veteran Services, Veterans Employment, and TBI Research
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A thumbs-up/thumbs-down on veteran employment tax credits produces unexpected results: Renner and Collins — both veterans — are ambivalent, while Fishback, who never served, argues most forcefully for expanding veteran employment pipelines. Collins pivots to propose Operation Reveille, a program to find the 700,000 Florida veterans currently disconnected from the VA, working through nonprofits, churches, and local organizations. Renner then makes his most personal policy pitch: a $28 million University of South Florida study into hyperbaric oxygen treatment for traumatic brain injury, which he framed as a humane alternative to the VA's practice of putting veterans on drugs for life. The segment reveals a consensus that the VA is too bureaucratic but disagreement on how much the state versus federal government should lead in addressing it.
Fishback's plan to eliminate foreign student influence: raise tuition for foreign students to $1 million per year. If they can't pay, they won't come, and Florida kids get their spots back. Renner would ban Chinese professors and students outright. Both cited Confucius Institutes as a failed experiment.
