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Alaska lawmakers are considering a bill to offer free or reduced tuition to Alaska’s essential workers and people who lost jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualifying essential workers — also known as front-line workers — would include grocery clerks, hospital personnel, janitors, personal care attendants, delivery drivers and others who helped to provide Alaskans with necessary goods and services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The $10 million program would be funded through the Alaska Higher Education Fund. Lawmakers discussed using federal relief dollars to cover the cost...

let me talk about some of the other programs impacted in the department of energy. the office nuclear energy. this is leading the way to a new generation of smaller, less costly reactors at places such as oak ridge and idaho national laboratories. this effort will suffer. the ability to move this bipartisan program forward will cease. in the office energy efficiency and renewable energy, eer&e, as it's referred to in the department. the house bill will result in over 31,000 homes that will not be weatherized, and, by july 1, it is estimated that something like 8,000 people who are ex...