Federal income tax filings and payments for individualsare due Monday. The Treasury Department and the IRSextended the deadlinein March. "This continues to be a tough time for many people, and the IRS wants to continue to do everything possible to help taxpayers navigate the unusual cir...
FEDERAL governmentThe article announces the launch of clinical trials for long corona-virus (COVID) treatments, the establishment of the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, and the government's efforts to enhance the lives of long COVID patients.Harris, Emily...
financial institutions that hold an account with the Fed. According to the Fed, it is a "real-time gross settlement system that enables participants to initiate funds transfer that are immediate, final, and irrevocable once processed." It is used to make large-value, time-critical payments.8 ...
Since investors “can’t make anything on government bonds when those yields are near zero,” he said, “they take bigger risks, buying assets that promise higher returns, from fine art to high-yield debt of zombie firms, which earn too little to make even interest payments and survive by...
On the other end of the spectrum, states with high percentages of federal workers and government facilities, as well as with older populations who receive Social Security or Medicare benefits, receive more from the government. The Rockefeller Institute found that direct payments to individuals under ...
At the time, President Joe Biden pledged to give out 1 billion free rapid tests. But the site was temporarily shut down that fall as a political fight dragged on over COVID funding. Officials said they had to conserve tests in case they didn’t get more money — which they didn’t. ...
An employer temporarily closes due to COVID-19, preventing employees from going to work. A person is quarantined and anticipates going back to work after the quarantine is over. A person stops work due to the risk of COVID-19 exposure or infection, to care for a family member, or to ...
It's part of the Biden administration's response to the millionssuffering from long COVID, with initiatives expected to ramp up over the coming months. "We're hoping October, November, we could start something big. We might start something small sooner, just to do a pilot first. It depend...
New York State has both the most cases and the most deaths, with over 67,000 and 1,200 respectively, according to the update. During a press briefing at the White House on Monday, Trump said over 1 million Americans have been tested for COVID-19. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human ...
Abstract. We examine federal judicial cases involving non-religious civil-liberties challenges to COVID-19-related public health orders from the start of the pandemic to June 29, 2021. Consistent with the tradition of judicial deference toward the state during emergencies, we find ...