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Thousands of Mississippians eligible for reduced insurance rates under ARP Becerra discusses health insurance tax credits offered under ARP. By Anthony Warren | April 8, 2021 at 6:01 PM CDT - Updated April 8 at 8:18 PM JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - For Mississippians who think they can’t afford health insurance, Health and Human Services Sec. Xavier Becerra says think again. Thanks to the passage of the American Rescue Plan, more than 119,000 people in the Magnolia State are now eligible for reduced insurance rates through the federal marketplace, Healthcare.gov. That number includes more ...

SANTA FE – Senate Bill 140 sailed unanimously without debate through the House this afternoon. Senator Gay Kernan and Representative Daymon Ely introduced joint legislation that modernizes New Mexico child support law and brings it in compliance with federal law that will collect more child support for New Mexico kids. Passage of the bill saves New Mexico from losing $147.5 million in federal funding: $122.6 million for the Temporary Assistance for Low-Income Families (TANF) program and $24.9 million in child support administrative/program funding if it fails to comply with federa...

Gov. Brian Kemp stressed Tuesday that Georgia still has a long way to go as the state works to vaccinate everyone against COVID-19, but they continue to work to ramp up distribution.

Push for minorities to get COVID vaccine Many are reluctant By CNN staff | December 22, 2020 at 2:46 PM CST - Updated January 12 at 12:05 PM (CNN) – Americans are expressing less reluctance about getting the COVID-19 vaccine, based on two recent surveys. “An ABC poll this week, more than 8 in 10 Americans say they plan to take the vaccine and Kaiser today announced 70%, so just vaccine confidence is surging,” said Health and Human Services Sec. Alex Azar. But the numbers are lower within the black community. Blacks and Hispanics are more likely to get infected, more likely to be hos...

U.S. officials have stated that millions of vaccines for the novel coronavirus are currently being held back in a planned deployment strategy, despite dozens of governors and other health officials voicing their frustration that their states had received fewer vaccines than promised. The anonymous admission comes after Health and Human Services Sec. Alex Azar appeared to suggest at a Thursday press conference that lower-than-expected levels of distribution were caused by Pfizer's "manufacturing challenges," per The Hill. Pfizer has currently only been able to make around half of the doses th...