Florida’s first "tool time" sales-tax holiday on tools and other home-repair and construction items will kick off during the Labor Day weekend. September 3, 2022 9:16am EDT San Jose seafood restaurant owner charged with bilking $3.5M from COVID relief funds ...
Republican governors, lawmakers and attorneys general have expressed apprehension about a provision in the wide-ranging relief act signed by President Joe Biden that prohibits states from using $195 billion of federal aid "to either directly or indirectly offset a reduction" in net tax...
The package includes nearly $360 billion in aid for state, local, tribal and territorial governments. Unlike previous COVID-19 relief measures, this package provides direct financial assistance to previously excluded smaller cities, counties and municipalities. Significantly, the aid may be u...
EU temporary capital relief in response to COVID-19 pandemic As we shift our attention to policy measures, we find the Stringency Index and the Containment Index, two indices that rate pandemic response efforts in areas other than economics. They are highly connected (always above 0.87) across ...
(2023). Effects of the 2021 expanded child tax credit on adults’ mental health: A quasi-experimental study. Health Affairs, 42(1), 74–82. Article Google Scholar Berge, L. (2018). Efficient estimation of maximum likelihood models with multiple fixed-effects: The R package FENmlm. CREA ...
The Kenyan government has announced several economic support measures, including tax relief, reduction of VAT, and a reduction of income and business tax (Were, 2020). As most of our households are employed in the informal sector, these relief measures may not reach them. The most relevant mea...
Republic of China (PRC),prompted an unprecedented government response to arrest the neg-ative impacts of COVID-19, putting people’s health and welfare first. In order to effectively contain the spread of the outbreak on a nationwide scale, anti-virus measures brought the econ-omy of China to...
(2020) investigated consumption responses to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act cash transfer in the U.S. using personal finance management software data similar to ours. Their findings are consistent with our main results: households with low income and less liquid ...
This may result because of the inability of neighbors to provide assistance or relief as they are already attempting to address their own stressors and strains. Breakdowns in neighboring behaviors may be even greater in neighborhoods with higher levels of mobility, as it may be more difficult to...
This guide explains the stimulus and relief efforts undertaken by the U.S. government during the COVID-19 crisis. Learn more about the support for business and employment.