The newest round of coronavirus aid legislation, which was agreed on by congressional leaders Sunday and passed by Congress on Monday night, will include roughly $54 billion for New York state, according to U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y.
On Monday, Sen. Schumer detailed how the new round of aid will include support for local governments, schools, public health departments, vaccine distribution and COVID-19 tests, as well as rent assistance, eviction relief, support for small- and medium-sized businesses and direct assistance to individuals.
But even as he described the far-reaching aid package, which is the second-largest in American history, second only to the CARES Act, Sen. Schumer stressed that this is only a stopgap measure, and more support is desperately needed.
Originally published on December 29, 2020 5:22 pm
By the end of last year, the door to a dream had begun to crack open for Lilli Rayne.
She d spent about five years building her dog-walking and pet-sitting business into a profitable venture in Asheville, N.C. My whole life had been entirely where I wanted it to be at that point, she recalls.
As she built her business, Rayne also left behind her history of less-than-stellar credit. For the first time in my life, I had a credit score that I could have finally bought a home with, she says, a dream she d had her entire adult life.
(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
It’s 2020, and so terrorists must have their say: Facebook, YouTube, and Zoom refused to carry a virtual event featuring a terrorist, and City University of New York (CUNY) officials are outraged.
As we see practically every day now, the Left is not bound by the rules it sets for everyone else. And so it is that on college campuses, when a pro-American, pro-Israel, pro-Trump speaker gets shouted down, canceled, or even physically attacked, that’s a justifiable, entirely warranted response to the speaker’s egregious racism (or whatever is the term of art of the moment) and an endeavor to protect the marginalized students on campus (that is, those who call all the shots) from being victimized by redneck MAGA yahoos. But on the rare occasions when a Leftist speaker is canceled, that is an outrageous, unacceptable, hair-pullingly evil interference with academic freedom, which Leftists suddenly remember to love and cherish after trampling upon it the oth
$4 In My Bank Account: Pandemic Has Left Millions Of Livelihoods In Limbo
By Lauren Hodges
December 21, 2020
By the end of last year, the door to a dream had begun to crack open for Lilli Rayne.
She’d spent about five years building her dog-walking and pet-sitting business into a profitable venture in Asheville, N.C.
“My whole life had been entirely where I wanted it to be at that point,” she recalls.
As she built her business, Rayne also left behind her history of less-than-stellar credit.
“For the first time in my life, I had a credit score that I could have finally bought a home with,” she says, a dream she’d had her entire adult life.
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More than 10 million people in the U.S. are out of jobs, and the hardest-hit industries are also some of the lowest paying, including retail, leisure, hospitality and tourism. (Sarah Gonzales for NPR)
By the end of last year, the door to a dream had begun to crack open for Lilli Rayne.
She’d spent about five years building her dog-walking and pet-sitting business into a profitable venture in Asheville, N.C.
“My whole life had been entirely where I wanted it to be at that point,” she recalls.
As she built her business, Rayne also left behind her history of less-than-stellar credit.