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A strange split vision is at play as the new Biden-Harris administration and its congressional supporters and opponents wrangle over proposals for economic relief and a stimulus bill for a U.S. economy devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Politicians and economists are arguing over the amount of relief and who should be eligible. Meanwhile, medical and public health professionals are scrambling for the fiscal, material and technical resources and personnel urgently needed for COVID-19 treatment, testing, contact tracing, vaccines and vaccine distribution, and also to track cases, hospitalizations, deaths and vaccinations.
In the frigid December air, volunteers from Fair Promise AME Zion Church handed out warm greetings and hot meals Tuesday night.
Cars began lining up around the block an hour before the event as people waited to receive meals from Merendaâs Soul Food Kitchen, a Jonesboro restaurant hired to cater the event.
â(Turnout) has already exceeded our expectations,â said Pastor Joseph Robbins. âWe know a lot of people in Sanford are hungry. COVID has thrown a wrench in everybodyâs world. It has peopleâs anxiety increasing to the utmost, so we wanted to find a way we can spread love and cheer even in the midst. What better to unite people than through a meal?â
New Jersey renters, homeowners and landlords negatively affected by the COVID pandemic have some new options for relief because of recent action at both the federal and state levels.
The need is dire between 330,000 and 480,000 of New Jersey s nearly 1.4 million tenants are unable to pay their rent and are at risk for eviction, according to a September study by Stout, a global investment bank and advisory firm.
Black and brown families are being disproportionately affected by the economic fallout of the pandemic, reducing their ability to make housing payments.
More than 317,000 New Jersey households are in arrears on rent payments, according to a U.S. Census Bureau survey over a two-week period covering late November to early December. About 40% of those families are Hispanic, despite Hispanics making up 21% of the state population. Overall, 207,000 families of color are behind on rent, compared with 110,000 white families.
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