From Downtown D.C., home to cultural destinations like the National Portrait Gallery, is suffering economically during the COVID-19 crisis. Tyrone Turner/WAMU/DCist
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When health officials in December 2019 first reported a mysterious, pneumonia-like virus circulating in the city of Wuhan, it was hard to fathom how the outbreak of a new pathogen in China would upend life and commerce in the capital of the United States.
Even now, more than one year after the first reported case of COVID-19 emerged in D.C., coming to terms with the scope of our loss remains a work in progress.
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Local leaders joined forces with a San Antonio nonprofit for a free, virtual event Wednesday morning that focuses on community needs of education and workforce development.
During the “Champions for Education Virtual Breakfast,” attendees discussed innovative methods for reducing poverty and enhancing equity opportunities for historically underserved populations in our community.
The 90-minute event happened Feb. 24 at 8 a.m. and was streamed live on KSAT.com. Find more information here.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Ten months into a pandemic that has overwhelmed hospitals and prompted government shutdowns that left millions of people out of work and forced many small businesses to close, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday revealed the most expensive budget in state history a $227 billion spending plan highlighted by a $15 billion one-time surplus.
Republican Sen. Melissa Melendez slammed Newsom’s plan for its lack of details.
Melendez joined Good Morning San Diego to share her thoughts on the budget.
“This budget provides no reopening plan nor the necessary relief for small businesses; it provides no successful roadmap to alleviate the growing housing, homelessness and mental health crises; and it provides no actionable help to the millions of school aged children who are falling behind academically,” she said in a statement.
California budget calls for $15 billion in economic relief
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom s $227 billion budget plan released Friday would turn a $15 billion windfall because of surging tax revenues into economic relief as the state confronts the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing deaths.
He pressed for lawmakers to act quickly on $5 billion in “emergency funding for five priorities: $2 billion for reopening schools, boosting coronavirus vaccine spending, $735 million in small business grants and fee waivers and $2.4 billion to give $600 cash payments to roughly 4 million people.
The money comes from surging tax revenues despite the pandemic, as California s richest continue to prosper and lower-income people are hit hardest from job losses.