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After much debate in Congress and after Congress passed a $1.9 trillion dollar bill to further assist Americans through the affects of the COVID pandemic, on March 11, 2021, President Biden executed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 into law. Some of the high points of the Act are as follows: For qualified individuals, the government will make direct payments of $1,400 per individual and $2,800 per married couples. In addition, for every child or other dependent that an individual has, they may also receive an additional $1,400 as well. Several clients have received these checks already so please check your bank accounts for the deposit of these additional funds.
LA chef raises over $240,000 for restaurant workers who need a lifeline Alexis Christoforous
Southern California chef and restaurateur owner, Andrew Gruel, took matters into his own hands and started a restaurant relief fund to provide assistance to struggling restaurant workers during the pandemic.
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Gruel, who owns the Slapfish Restaurant Group, set up a GoFundMe page in December, and it’s already raised more than $240,000.
“Within the restaurant ecosystem, the most important players are the people working within the restaurants,” Gruel tells Yahoo Finance. “And they ve been left out in left field without any sort of semblance of a lifeline. We don t have time to wait for big, bloated government programs to come in and try and help these people out.”