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COLUMBIA — South Carolina families have just several weeks to claim millions of dollars in grocery assistance before the aid expires. Nearly 537,000 debit cards were mailed to families statewide last August as part of a federal program started during the COVID-19 pandemic intended to help poor families buy groceries when their children aren’t getting […] The post Millions in SC summer grocery aid will expire next month appeared first on SC Daily Gazette.

The charge involves federal COVID-19 relief money that had been appropriated to the county.

A conservative group rolled out an ad on Wednesday encouraging other Republicans to look to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on the issue of immigration following Youngkin’s decision to reject state legislation that would strengthen a federal program that conservatives say has led to undocumented immigrants receiving subsidized health care. The 30-second ad, which was released by the…

Iowa is directing nearly a million dollars in grant funding to expand summer meal sites for low-income kids. It is an effort that advocates welcome, but some remained worried that it won’t be enough to alleviate the barriers to access that were addressed by a separate federal program — providing roughly $29 million to Iowa's low-income families — that the state rejected. The state is allocating $900,000 to schools and nonprofit organizations that participate in certain federal programs designed to serve summer meals and snacks in counties where at least 50% of child...

Jim Beard served as Atlanta’s CFO from November 2011 to May 2018.