Economists urge Congress not to repeat mistakes, and pass a bigger relief package sooner By Rebecca Carballo and R.A. Schuetz, Staff writers
Congress is moving quickly to pass another coronavirus relief plan, racing through a debate over the size of the federal spending package and speed at which it should be delivered.
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The consensus among economists: Go big, go fast.
The House and Senate on Friday approved budget resolutions on party line votes that would allow Democrats, who hold narrow majorities Congress, to approve a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan without Republican support by next month. A group of 10 Republican senators has proposed a scaled back package of about $600 billion.
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BRANTFORD A Brantford woman is putting names and faces to the deadly opioid crisis that continues to worsen in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dawn Girard lost two brothers to overdoses over the span of three years. Their lives, they had so much going for them and they were good human beings and they had a family and they had their kids, she said. Her brothers, Harold and Michael Saddler, both struggled with addiction. Girard said they often used alone and ultimately died alone. He was found in a dirt basement passed and nobody was with him, she said.
Widespread poverty in the countryside in Elizabethan times drove beggars towards the relative honeypot of York. To deal with this, the corporation took a census of the poor and issued begging licences. From 1515, beggars certified as legal had to wear tokens on their shoulders. By 1528 a hierarchy of beggars was established, according to the History of York website. To each ward was appointed a ‘Master Beggar’ who kept an eye on the rest. Any without a token were told to leave. The census we know today happens every ten years and provides invaluable information about all the people and households in England and Wales.
Dozens of local business leaders signed on to a letter to Boise and Idaho’s political leaders decrying recent vandalism at the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial.
An unidentified person or group placed nine stickers on the memorial with a swastika and the words “we are everywhere” sometime between late December 7th and early December 8th. The stickers were promptly removed, and community members quickly showed up to place flowers, signs saying “love is everywhere” and other materials near the statue of Frank at the center of the memorial.
“This kind of attack has no place in our city and the message behind it has no place in our community. We are saddened, angered, and disgusted by the desecration, defamation, and vandalism of the memorial,” the letter said.