Religious Groups Rally for the American Rescue Plan
March 4, 2021, 9:00 am
Prominent religious leaders and faith-based organizations are rallying support for the American Rescue Plan the $1.9 trillion relief package that addresses the public health and economic crises facing the United States due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed funding will help people in need by speeding up the distribution and administration of coronavirus vaccines; providing $1,400 stimulus checks to most Americans and an extra $400 per week to out-of-work Americans through August; guaranteeing 14 weeks of emergency paid leave for all workers; providing $350 billion in state and local aid; and expanding the child tax credit.
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By HANNAH DENHAM | The Washington Post | Published: March 1, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Chelesa Presley is deeply familiar with the struggles of young families, first from her years as a social worker and now from running a nonprofit in one of Mississippi s poorest regions. She s used to the questions about car seats, nursing and colicky babies, but paying for diapers is always the chronic and most-pressing worry. I see parents not putting anything on their babies because they don t have diapers, she said. I ve seen people use shopping bags with some rags in it. I ve seen T-shirts. I ve seen people keeping the diapers on longer than necessary, and the diapers sag down when the babies walk.