coronavirus relief
The Century Foundation has released a potentially telling estimate of how the American Rescue Plan and its predecessors helped working families.
The state's auditor found that the Republican governor not only misspent the federal money but tried to conceal it.
The state that recently led the country in COVID-19 deaths wants to spend its pandemic relief funds on incarceration instead.
But parents and teachers are clamoring to get the federally funded program back as families continue to financially struggle during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Commissioners in Shiawassee County, Michigan, paid themselves as much as $25,000 in bonuses. One commissioner said she “earned it.”
The move will provide relief to tenants who have struggled to pay their rent during the coronavirus pandemic.
Some of the biggest hikes were in states whose Republican senators voted against $1,400 stimulus checks, according to new government data.
The state will pay up to $15,600 to undocumented workers excluded from COVID-19 unemployment relief — the largest such fund in the country.
The former Democratic presidential hopeful, now running for New York mayor, staked his national candidacy on the idea of unconditional cash assistance.
House Democrats are now sending the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature. They voted 220-211, with no Republicans voting in favor of the legislation.