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Biden proposes $1,400 direct payments and extending boosted unemployment benefits until September.

PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Services) — On Jan. 12, 2021, David W. Panuelo, president of the Federated States of Micronesia, opened the first of a series of exploratory informational meetings

Kenneth Lasson The Baltimore Sun President-elect Joe Biden could largely avoid the quagmire of political turmoil he’s about to inherit by following a thoughtful course of action. Here’s a three-step plan that could pacify the entrenched partisan divides: Step 1: Announce in advance that upon taking office he’d pardon Donald Trump and any of his potentially culpable Cabinet or staff members for misdeeds they may have committed while in government service. As far back a...

$2,000 Stimulus Checks Would Significantly Help 60% With Lowest Income: Report On 1/12/21 at 6:26 PM EST The bottom 60 percent of earners in America will see a "significant impact" if $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks are issued, according to a recent report. A $2,000 payment would give a 60 percent majority of Americans, those with annual incomes under $65,000, an average income boost of 11 percent, according to a report released last week by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The bott...

Updated Jan 15, 2021 Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Pinpoints The Key To COVID-19 Relief The Senate can certainly pass this bill and conduct an impeachment trial at the same time, Gillibrand told HuffPost: “You can walk and chew gum.” There’s one key step Congress could take to help the millions of women struggling to care for children at home due to school and day care closures, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) told HuffPost: pass paid sick and family leave in the next COVID-19 relief package. ...

Shortly before the 2016 election, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the Republican nominee for vice president and the speaker of the House, told a group of college Republicans why he thought Democrats winning control of the Senate would be a policy nightmare."Do you know who becomes chair of the Senate Budget Committee?" Ryan asked. "A guy named Bernie Sanders. You ever heard of him?"Republicans have long feared the prospect of Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist from Vermon...

BANGKOK, Jan 12 (Bloomberg): Thailand unveiled stimulus programmes including cash handouts worth 210 billion baht (US$7 billion) to support millions of individuals and businesses affected by the country’s biggest wave of coronavirus infections since the pandemic began a year ago.

BOSTON — Massachusetts has at least 9 billion reasons to be happy about the latest federal COVID-19 relief and economic stimulus law. In response to a News Service request for information, Gov. Charlie Bakers administration estimated that Massachusetts is positioned to receive at least $9 billion under the law assembled by Congress in December and signed late last month by President Donald Trump. The measure was passed after months of partisan wrangling. And the states estimate does not in...

Woman Sees Her $600 Stimulus Payment Vanish in Minutes While Using Cash App On 1/12/21 at 12:12 PM EST A Cash App user in Tennessee saw her second stimulus payment disappear from her account in minutes while using the mobile payment service, which allows users to send and receive money. On December 31, 2020, Kristina McClure, from Knoxville, noticed the $600 payment had vanished from her Cash App account, where it had appeared minutes earlier. She told Knoxvilles WATE 6: "Somebody named TrulyPa...

When Congress passed a combined stimulus and government funding package in December, the bill began a 180-day window in which the Central Intelligence Agency — in conjunction with the United States Department of Defense — was required to compile a report for Congress on any information the [...]