federal aid
Federal aid is available for restaurant and bar owners in New York in a COVID relief package. $28.6 billion is available, and the money is to cover COVID-related losses from this year and last. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says hundreds of restaurants in NY are at risk of closure without these funds. Each […]
The Rochester City School District will soon receive about $87 million from the first COVID-19 relief bill that was passed in December of last year. The most recent COVID-19 relief package will bring in somewhere around $200 million. The total amount of federal aid will provide around 1/3 of the school’s budget for the year, […]
California has been requesting a disaster declaration due to the six uncontrollable wildfires that have been ravaging the state since the season began. According to Brian Ferguson, spokesperson for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services,The Trump administration has denied the request. “The request for a Major Presidential Disaster Declaration for early September fires has been […]
The governor of California is requesting federal aid to help combat the 2nd and 3rd worst wildfires in the state’s history. Hundreds of thousands of people have been given evacuation orders and even more aid is being requested from 10 states, Canada and Australia. In all, there are around 560 wildfires raging but the two […]
This past week almost 1.2 million laid-off Americans applied for state unemployment benefits. After rising for two-weeks straight towards the end of July, last week new jobless claims had been down 249,000. Before the pandemic the amount of Americans trying to get unemployment checks had never been more than 700,00 per week. The Labor Department […]
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