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Newark Free Lunch Program issues call for help Wayne Post Before the pandemic, the Newark Free Lunch Program provided over 7,800 meals annually at Emmanuel United Methodist Church. The basement dining room was forced to close last March, so volunteers prepared grab-and-go lunches that were handed out at the door.  The number of lunches given out went up due to unemployment. In the past year, volunteers handed out 22,205 lunches. This included 162 Thanksgiving dinners and 158 Christmas dinners. Mostly adults received meals in the past, but there was an increase in the number of families with ...

President Biden is seeking to rally support for his $1.9 trillion aid package.Credit...Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Biden met with business leaders at the White House on Tuesday as part of his push to rally support for the $1.9 trillion pandemic package being debated in Congress and his plan to raise the minimum wage. Mr. Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with the chief executives of Walmart, Gap, Lowe’s and JPMorgan Chase, as well as Thomas J. Donohue, the outgoing head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Over the course of about 90 minutes, the g...

President Joe Biden's nominee for White House budget director told senators Tuesday that she deleted more than 1,000 tweets in November because “I regretted my tone."

Lyft’s business had been improving early in the quarter but slumped in November and December as coronavirus cases climbed in the United States.