The plan included aid for businesses hit hardest by the pandemic and more funding for unemployment insurance. 11:25 pm, Dec. 14, 2020 ×
Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, D-Brooklyn Park, on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, presided over the chamber during the Legislature s sixth special legislative session of the year. (Dana Ferguson / Forum News Service)
ST. PAUL Minnesota lawmakers on Monday, Dec. 14, approved a $216 million deal to provide grants to business owners hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic and extend unemployment insurance to workers through April.
Legislators returned to the Capitol for the seventh special session of the year Monday afternoon and while they were only required to consider an extension of the state s peacetime emergency, they also sent to the governor s desk a COVID-19 relief package.
Make a deal on Minnesota COVID-19 relief It s not either-or. Small businesses and the unemployed need help to weather the storm.
By EDITORIAL BOARD Star Tribune December 11, 2020 7:33pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Minnesotans have a chance at a $216 million COVID state relief package that could provide a measure of assistance as Congress remains gridlocked.
That funding is more necessary than ever as Minnesotans approach some crucial deadlines. Extended unemployment insurance will run out on Dec. 26. Pandemic unemployment assistance, which covers self-employed and contractors typically not eligible, expires even earlier Dec. 19. Commissioner of Employment and Economic Development Steve Grove t
By STEVE KARNOWSKIDecember 10, 2020 GMT
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz stands in front of Casper s and Runyon s Nook in St. Paul, Minn. to roll out a proposal for a legislative relief package, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Walz and Minnesota House Republicans unveiled relief proposals targeted at small businesses that have taken the hardest blow from the governor s tightening of the state s restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and expressed hope that lawmakers could pass a plan as early as next week. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz stands in front of Casper s and Runyon s Nook in St. Paul, Minn. to roll out a proposal for a legislative relief package, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Walz and Minnesota House Republicans unveiled relief proposals targeted at small businesses that have taken the hardest blow from the governor s tightening of the state s restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and expressed hope that lawmakers could pass a plan as early
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