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$1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package could change social safety net forever Share Updated: 1:30 PM CST Mar 12, 2021 Associated Press $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package could change social safety net forever Share Updated: 1:30 PM CST Mar 12, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript BUSINESSES STAND TO BENEFIT. >> THIS IS THE FIRST FIVE PAGES OF THE MORE THAN 600 PAGE COVID RELIEF PLAN. MANY OF THE THINGS ARE COMING AT THE RIGHT TIME. FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED OR ON UNEMPLOYMENT, YOU MAY HAVE BE WORRYING BECAUSE THE EXT $300 PAYMENTS ARE SET TO RUN ...

President Biden, when signing the package into law Thursday, referenced it as an overt attempt to redraw the country's economic fault lines in a way that's bigger than the pandemic.

President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package is being hailed as a generational expansion of the social safety net.

Op-ed: 1.8M Hoosiers struggled during pre-pandemic 'normal.' Now's the time to aim higher. Mark Muro and Robert Maxim, Indianapolis Star This is the new normal for high schoolers, nearly one year into the coronavirus pandemic Replay Video Indiana has momentum as it moves (knock on wood) beyond the worst of the pandemic.  As recently as December, the state’s employment level was just 1.4% below that of February 2020, good for the ninth-fastest rebound among states.  Enabling the rebound, meanwhile, has been the state’s expansive “make and move” manufacturing and logi...

Phoenix leads in growth, but wealth disparity is wide, report shows NAIOP Posted at 8:54 AM, Feb 26, 2021 and last updated 2021-02-26 10:55:13-05 Phoenix has consistently been one of the fastest-growing large metros in the country, but new data from the Brookings Institution shows prosperity has not kept up with the growing population. Brookings Metro Monitor ranked Phoenix 19th out of 53 very large metros on growth and 46th on prosperity using data from 2009 to 2019. He notes that although there has been much effort put in over that decade to grow and diversify the area’s economy, that...