Do states and cities 'need' Biden's $350 billion in direct COVID-19 relief? It depends where you're asking Joey Garrison, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT WASHINGTON – One year ago this week, Toledo, Ohio, collected more income tax revenue than at any point in the city's 188-year history. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Businesses closed in the working-class Midwest city of 275,000 people, unemployment spiked, income dropped – and the city's primary source of revenue cratered. Down $15 million in income tax collections from the record high – an 8% decline – the city dipped into its reserves. It furloughed more than 300 government employees, postponed maintenance on vehicle fleets, delayed street paving and pothole repairs and canceled an incoming class of firefighters.