El Monte joins the City and County of Los Angeles in introducing a Guaranteed Income pilot program, which will provide $500 per month to 125 eligible participants for one year, city officials announced today.
On Tuesday evening, the El…
BALTIMORE (WJZ) --Baltimore City will use nearly $5 million of its American Rescue Plan Act funding to launch a free workforce training program, Mayor Brandon Scott announced Wednesday.In the first year of the initiative, known as Train Up,…
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On Monday evening, the Columbia City Council on Monday approved a new contract with Columbia…
Altoona officials are trying to figure out how best to set up and operate a program that would use about $1 million of American Rescue Plan Act money for business…
Today, Mayor Tishaura O. Jones joins Cure Violence frontline workers, gun violence prevention advocates and survivors, and Everytown for Gun Safety in commemorating Black History Month with a video highlighting efforts to reduce gun…
The Administration recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on persons with disabilities and brought new members into the disability community.
Over the past year, the Authority has collaborated with…
On hiatus while the Williamsport City Council focused on the pandemic and other pressing issues, the topic of revitalizing Park Avenue areas recently resurfaced.…
Even if the federal stimulus checks don't come, some state and local governments are using the federal funds they have received to make targeted stimulus payments. Recently, the Las Vegas City Council approved a plan for…
Undeterred, Ms. Shalala encouraged philanthropic organizations to fund needle exchange programs and called on experts from the National Institutes of Health to provide needle exchange training. Mr. Clinton later said he regretted his…
PETALUMA, Calif. (BCN) — The first phase of Petaluma's emergency shelter pilot program called People's Village has ended, and new residents will be welcomed into nine brand-new units on the site by the end of the month.…
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The Gun Violence Prevention Commission is preparing to offer hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to area organizations.The mini-grants program is back, but a second grant opportunity is planned to put another…
DAYTONA BEACH, Florida. -Volusia County Council has approved funding for a new facility that the sheriff's office says would provide a multi-faceted approach to youth crime.The board voted unanimously Tuesday to approve $5.4 million in…
LAURELLE, miss. A county in Mississippi is working to close the digital divide by making internet access more available. The Laurel-Jones County Library received 2,000 hotspot devices that will be available at checkout for…
Merced County has authorized the master plan for how to spend its latest round of COVID-19 stimulus funds.
On Tuesday, the Merced County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the use of $53.9 million received from the American…
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The Syracuse Common Council approved a working agreement between the Syracuse Fire Association and the city at their meeting Monday.…
“Our board decided to take our time and explore our options,” he said. "We are not interested in rushing."What about other funding?Before the US Rescue Plan, there was the CARES Act, the law signed by President Donald Trump in 2020 as an…
President Joe Biden recently trumpeted that during the last open enrollment period, a record 14.5 million Americans signed up for health coverage through the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance law that was passed when Biden was vice…
Krystal Maldonado has lived her entire life in Beaufort County. When she received a four-year nursing scholarship to stay in the area, she said, it felt like her community was giving back to her. “I had never heard of a…
The Delaware County Council recently considered ways to spend the $110 million in American Rescue Plan Act money as members offered their views on priorities they would like to see funded.
As part of a quarterly project update due to be…
BELLA VISTA, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) - The town of Bella Vista, Ark. is seeking public input on how to distribute the $5.9 million in federal funds allocated to it.
According to a press release, the funds are part of the American…
Newswise - BINGHAMTON, NY - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer announced a $1.6 million federal Economic Development Administration grant to Binghamton University to expand the University of soft landing of the Koffman Southern…
"The Hope Village" will provide temporary outdoor housing for non-housed residents
The Louisville Metropolitan Government's Office of Resilience and Community Services (RCS) announced today that it has selected an operations manager for…
5:29 p.m. | Friday, January 14, 2022https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHp0yZ707FMMinnesota received $8.5 billion in federal funds through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Twenty-one towns in Minnesota received some of that money.…
The New Jersey State Library, an affiliate of Thomas Edison State University, will administer a statewide telehealth program, NJHealthConnect @ Your Library, to remove barriers to health equity for residents of the!-->!-->…
Over the past few weeks, comments and innuendo have been made about the funding that local jurisdictions have received from the federal government through the CARES Act and, by extension, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), also known…
Lake Charles's approximately 35,000 30-year-old water meters will be replaced with new automated meters over the next 16 to 18 months, after unanimous city council approval on Wednesday.
Mayor Nic Hunter said these new meters…
Families in difficulty at risk of having their water cut off due to non-payment have a new relief channel.
Funded by the American Rescue Plan, the Low-Income Household Water…
If you're buying your own health insurance, it's time to choose your coverage for 2022. If you buy it through Covered California, there's a better chance than ever that you'll get a big discount on your monthly premium - or pay. no premium…
SCHENECTADY - While the recent surge in coronavirus infections has forced dozens of Broadway shows to be canceled in recent weeks, the show will continue - at least for now - at Proctors.
The downtown theater did not intend to cancel its…
PLAINVILLE - The Plainville Public Library has received over $ 18,000 in funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), which has been used to provide new easy-to-sanitize seats throughout the library. Last spring, the Connecticut State…
A proposed, but never executed, subdivision of the 35.15 acres of Town of Northampton property purchased by Fulton County for $ 520,000 in October for the purpose of installing the "Great Sacandaga Lake History Museum", was valued in 2016…
Marion County Commissioners Michelle Stone, left, Carl Zalak III, Jeff Gold, Kathy Bryant and Craig Curry all attend the Marion County Commissioners Workshop Tuesday morning July 14, 2021 at the campus auditorium McPherson Government in…
The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority has sent 121 state homeowners who have been financially affected by COVID-19 invitations to apply for foreclosure prevention funds.The dollars came from the third phase of the state's Homeowners…
The Burlington Wastewater Treatment Plant on Lavalley Lane in Burlington. Jon Groveman, policy and water program director for the Natural Resources Council, said the windfall ahead could be a good time to upgrade Vermont's aging…
Governor Pritzker announces Illinois initiative to help communities prepare to invest in broadband infrastructure (Springfield, IL) - Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Trade and Economic Opportunities (DCEO) Broadband…
"Frown your forehead." The frequent remonstrances of my mother to her easily passionate daughter. I need a lot of reminder. I have felt like I have been rubbing my forehead nonstop for almost two…
A few weeks ago, I was writing about the City's decision to create an ARPA committee. The Select Board assigns a seven-member committee to make recommendations on how to spend American Rescue Plan Act funds. The City is eligible for…
Nancy Lou Anderson Glasgow spoke at the inauguration of a classroom in her honor during Dufford Diversity and Inclusion Week at Newberry College. She is accompanied by her son, Newberry Lemont Glasgow City…
Oneida County has seen the number of reported cases of COVID-19 increase over the past week, with deaths declining slightly, according to county statistics. The county reported 625 new cases during the week of Thursday October 28 through…
SPRINGFIELD - In an effort to support residents and their businesses, the city has issued a call for tenders, or RFP, for businesses and nonprofits. American Rescue Plan Act money is available for those who have not received funding in the…
A mile from the nearest bus stop is a 500-acre former correctional facility that held juvenile incarcerated. Young people still make the trip to the resort on Oahu's Windward Coast, but now it's a choice to escape the streets.…
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October 30, 2021 (Washington DC) - The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is providing total funding of $ 797.5 million from the United States…
President Joe Biden on October 29, 2021 in Rome, Italy.Antonio Masiello | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesInsurance subsidiesThe measure would increase subsidies for health insurance in two ways, according to Cynthia Cox, director of the…
The San Diego Unified School Board on Tuesday approved a plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID aid on substitute teachers, babysitters, bus drivers, nurses and counselors, as well as special education , bus routes,…
The federal workforce used just over half of the funds Congress set aside earlier this year for a special emergency leave program.
The American Rescue Plan Act, which Congress…
EXTON® Acting Department of Social Services (DHS) Secretary Meg Snead joined early childhood educators and community members at the Lionville Center at the Warwick Child Care Center in Exton to thank the educators for their services to…
Editor's Note: This is the second in a six-part series featuring the candidates for Jamestown City Council.
Thomas Nelson faces a challenger for the first time since being…
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From replenishing New Jersey's depleted unemployment account to funding the risk premium for frontline workers, there is no shortage of ideas on how the state should use its remaining…
Researchers from the Center for Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University measured monthly poverty rates throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They use a supplemental poverty measure that includes all taxes and transfers, including…
Thanks to the Federal Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), our state has the opportunity to make unprecedented investments in water, sewer and broadband infrastructure. We have a chance to propel our state forward, but only if we have the manpower…
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DOWNTOWN AKRON - Akron City Council is exploring several programs to install cameras in the city to help fight crime.At Akron City Council committee…
The district is also considering an after-school transportation program
Superintendent Joseph Sawyer speaks at a school committee meeting earlier this year. (Photo / Laura Hayes)
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As part of the administration's efforts to address food system challenges stemming from the pandemic as well as those stretching back decades, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the 'USDA was…
As the legislature focuses on plans to spend billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funding, Auditor Suzanne Bump calls for a "rural bailout" that would help the more than 100, mostly small communities of western Massachusetts, to…
The New York Public Library, the USS Constitution Museum in Boston, and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia, are among more than 300 recipients of new National Endowment for the Humanities Covid Relief Grants…
ROSEVILLE - To help schools create COVID-19 testing programs for students and staff, the state of Minnesota extended the deadline for public and tribal schools to apply for a grant to October 15. The original deadline…
The deeply divided Arkansas Senate voted Thursday to return eight bills that would restrict employer-mandated covid-19 vaccinations to committee for review.
The Senate's 19-14 vote to send the coronavirus-related bills back to the Senate…
FAIRMONT, W.Va. - Minority Affairs Office Herbert Henderson hosted one of their statewide listening tours on Thursday night at the Falcon Center at Fairmont State University.
The Listening tour launched in August to hear what…
WASHINGTON, DC - US Senators Debbie Stabenow (MI), Gary Peters (MI) and Governor Gretchen Whitmer today announced $ 1,303,044 in funding to support community health centers on the…
The $ 380 million that Allegheny County will receive from the federal government as part of the American rescue plan The law will improve programs that help those who need it most, Allegheny County Councilor DeWitt Walton said on Tuesday.…
Maryland Congressional Delegation Announces More Than $ 1 Million in US Rescue Plan Funding to Support Cultural Institutions in Economic Recovery from COVID-19 | Press releases | Congressman Jamie Raskin…
The deadline for child care providers to apply for the current funding cycle is September 30, 2021.
AUGUSTA, Maine - The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced Monday it will distribute $…
AUGUSTA - With nearly $ 24 million in federal relief funds to spend over the next few years, Kennebec County officials will hold a public forum on Monday to hear from towns, villages and county nonprofits on their spending priorities for…
The mental health of Hawaii's keiki has suffered as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world to adjust to a new normal of socially distant living. New federal funding to the Hawaii Department of Health is planned to tackle this crisis…
The two Hawai'i County Mediation Centers have started conducting free 90-minute landlord-tenant mediations.
Mediations come in response to the end of the moratorium on state evictions, which ended on August 6, 2021.
The shutdown…
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The Bucks County Seal outside the Justice Center. Photo file.
Mental health agencies in Bucks, Dauphin, Carbon, Monroe and Pike counties are using new grants to test a program…
The Homeless Advocates Team tasked with spending nearly $ 3 million in American Rescue Plan Act dollars to tackle the critical issue of homelessness in Pensacola has provided a comprehensive roadmap on how they will tackle the…