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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand brought her call for robust Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, funding in the next coronavirus relief
Georgia’s senators are among a group urging for the next pandemic relief package to include more help for people struggling to pay their electric bills.
U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff signed onto a letter with more than 40 other senators to Senate leaders asking for more funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, a program that helps people pay their utility bills.
“Across the nation, utilities are reporting significant increases in the number of families falling behind on their utility bills,” the senators wrote. “The National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association estimates that 15 to 20 percent of residential customers are at least 60 days behind on their electric and natural gas bills.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom, Facing Recall Effort, Puts Essential Workers at Risk
By Walker Bragman and David Sirota
On 1/27/21 at 2:07 PM EST
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) holds and looks at a vial containing Pfizer/BioNTech s COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, California on December 14, 2020.
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With a virulent new strain of coronavirus, California s pandemic outbreak is so out of control that public officials have had to lift air pollution regulations in order to accommodate a spike in cremations. Meanwhile, public opinion data shows widespread support for keeping businesses closed to halt the outbreak.
In response to the emergency and to a recall effort around his handling of the pandemic and the economy Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is lifting stay-at-home restrictions, removing essential workers from the state s vaccine priority list, and championing a complex deal that extends the state s expiring partial eviction moratorium but still al