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The NC General Assembly has been in full swing this week, working to find solutions to some of the state s most pressing problems, like school reopening and extending unemployment benefits in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The legislature also has spent the week discussing bills that do not necessarily make the headlines but are very important for those that are affected. One bill, House Bill 53: Education Changes for Military-Connected Students, will make changes to ease the burden of active duty parents worrying about their child s education. Another bill, House Bill 136: Encourage Healthy NC Food in Schools, will help North Carolina farmers by putting muscadine grape juice in public school cafeterias. Most of these bills will pass overwhelmingly with little to no opposition, but they show how important state government can be.
Posted March 11th, 2021 for Broadcast Music Posted in on March 11, 2021 Today, President Biden signed the sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package called the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, offering support to many individuals economically impacted by the pandemic, including music creators, copyright owners, and other small businesses. This vital legislation includes the following provisions that can help the creative community:
Direct Payments: The American Rescue Plan provides a $1,400 payment to supplement the $600 already provided in December. Individuals earning up to $75,000 and couples earning up to $150,000 will receive the full direct payments of $1,400 per person. Individuals will also receive an additional $1,400 payment for each dependent claimed on their tax returns.
February 2020, the Unemployment Insurance Division of the
Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) received an average of 13,000 UI claims each week. By the middle of March,
Texas saw well over 100,000 weekly claims. During one week in April, the number exceeded 400,000.
Given this enormous shift,
Texas, which has a legacy UI system, had to make several tech-related changes, said TWC CIO
Heather Hall. The TWC website was moved to the cloud. Web servers were doubled in March and again in April. Mainframe capacity had to be increased by 200 percent. The UI department expanded its call center capacity by deploying interactive voice response with help from Google and Genesys and doubling its call centers from four to eight through local partnerships.
Trenton Bureau
The $1.9 trillion federal stimulus plan that became law Thursday includes over $25 billion for the Garden State to continue unemployment benefits, expand rental assistance and prop up governments and residents with direct payments.
President Joe Biden signed the massive economic recovery plan, known as the American Rescue Plan Act, on Thursday, just days before key unemployment programs which have propped up more than 1.5 million New Jerseyans during the pandemic begin to lapse. The American Rescue Plan will put the United States on a path to defeat this virus once and for all and restore opportunity in our economy for hardworking families all across the nation, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said in a statement.