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On September 22, 2001 11 days after terrorists toppled the Twin Towers and part of the Pentagon President George W. Bush signed into law the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
The program, in its initial form, offered $20,000 to the injured and $50,000 to families of those killed. Since then, the payouts have expanded to include first responders who suffered 9/11-related illnesses and billions more have been promised through 2090.
arrow Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn CHINE NOUVELLE/SIPA/Shutterstock
Hospital groups and health equity advocates are celebrating now that the upcoming state budget does not include the broad cuts to health care spending initially proposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Those changes would have disproportionately impacted safety-net hospitals, which serve communities that were hardest hit by COVID-19.
When Cuomo released his executive budget in January, he anticipated a $15 billion shortfall over the next two years. He sought to fill part of the gap by slashing about $600 million in health care spending. His proposals included a 1% reduction in Medicaid rates and cuts to state subsidies for already-struggling safety-net hospitals that serve low-income New Yorkers.
Published April 07. 2021 9:42PM
Seung Min Kim and Tyler Pager, The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Thursday will announce a half-dozen executive actions focused on curbing gun violence, including regulations on home-assembled firearms and the nomination of a gun-control advocate to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The initiatives are the first major actions that Biden will take as president on guns, a top Democratic priority that has only become more urgent after recent mass shootings in Boulder, Colo., and the Atlanta area. We know that Americans are dying from gun violence every single day in this country, a senior administration official, briefing reporters on the condition of anonymity, said Wednesday. That s why we are pursuing an agenda that will address not only mass shootings, but also community violence disproportionately affecting Black and Brown Americans, domestic violence and suicide by firearm.
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