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And Biden urges Americans to get vaccinated as Omicron looms.

WFAE With apologies to Tennyson, in the spring a local government's fancy turns to budgets. The city of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County released their spending plans this week, and the city budget moved forward with a plan to bypass the Arts & Science Council in funding local arts. Buried in the city budget proposal were details of a pay raise for the mayor and City Council members, one of whom apologized for comments about the 2040 plan. Mecklenburg County's budget proposal included a $56 million ultimatum for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. That's the amount the county is proposing to with...

4 Min Read ZURICH, April 22 (Reuters) - Swiss consumers are set to boost the country’s post-COVID-19 economic recovery, economists say, by using the mountains of cash saved during the crisis to fuel a spending spree. Wealthy Switzerland’s savings rate - the average amount of disposable income not spent - rose nearly 50% last year, to 19.9% from 13.8%, as restrictions to curb the pandemic cut consumption, according to the KOF Economic Institute. Households saved 89 billion Swiss francs ($97.27 billion), a jump from 60 billion francs put aside in 2019. “During the COVID crisis last year t...

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Swiss spooked by using debt to prop up economy Issued on: 21/02/2021 - 04:36 4 min Zurich (AFP) Germany, which is known for strict budgets, has tapped debt markets to prop up its virus-hit economy, while neighbouring Switzerland has consistently curbed borrowing despite calls to change course. With Swiss firms struggling through another lockdown, the federal government last week finally loosened its purse strings a bit, doubling emergency aid to 10 billion Swiss francs ($11.2 billion, 9.3 billion euros) as part of a programme to boost the economy. But when he presented the package for compa...