The Democrats' goal is to have COVID-19 relief approved by mid-March, when extra unemployment assistance and other pandemic aid expires. The Senate, which Democrats control with a tie-breaking vote from the vice president, will consider the bill next. A look at some highlights o...
2021. This bill also extends the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, with expanded coverage to the self-employed, gig workers, and others in nontraditional employment, and the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program, which provides additional...
whereas education and younger age anticipated adaptive behavioral changes, such as taking up online sex work. Further, the Covid-19 pandemic has affected FSWs access to socioeconomic assistance programs and HIV prevention services, exposing them to the dual threat of ...
to argue that COVID-19 has reversed the roles of both countries in terms of dealing with disasters and supporting others. While in the past the US was always the first to arrive with aid where assistance was needed (like on 26 December 2004 when a major tsunami hit Indonesia), this role...
Congressional leaders have hashed out a massive, year-end catchall bill that combines $900 billion in COVID-19 aid with a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill and reams of other unfinished legislation on taxes, energy, education and health care. The huge,
The bill includes an additional $600 per week payment to each recipient of Unemployment Insurance or Pandemic Unemployment Assistance for up to four months. 2. Direct financial assistance payments to qualifying individuals The bill provides one-time, direct financial assistance payments of $1,200 to...
Biden administration assistance to India and possibility of intellectual property waiver In recent weeks, with the increasing number of cases in India, the Biden administration has unequivocally stated that it will assist India in dealing with the COVID-19 threat. Apart from President Biden and other...
The health ministry said there are currently 33 patients considered severely ill and are on ventilators to receive respiratory assistance or have been admitted to intensive care units for medical treatment. The death toll in Japan from the virus currently stands at 27, according to the health minis...
released his own version of a pandemic relief bill that would dwarf the democratic proposal by spending about the same amount of federal funds along with $2.1 billion from the state’s budget reserves. the measure would spend $1.5 billion on various relief items, like rental assista...
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat, indicated that excluding the checks while assuring small-business aid and renters’ assistance was the only way to reach agreement with Republicans who are putting firm limits on the bill’s final price tag. “The $1,200...