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Future in Context
Future in Context
Republican lawmakers and business groups argue that the state’s economy is suffering from too many people collecting unemployment benefits instead of working. But the effort could remove a financial safety net.
Health experts say that some of the statements the Florida governor makes about COVID-19 and its vaccines are, sometimes, entirely incorrect, which contributes to the growing number of COVID infections and deaths.
The Bay Area regional transit system is desperately trying to recover from the plummeting ridership numbers caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Officials expect the system’s budget deficit will be $1.2 billion by 2032.
With a high influx of COVID-related jobless claims, hackers found it easy to scam state unemployment benefit systems. But tracking down the illegitimate payments is a slow and frustrating process.
The U.S. Department of Labor issued a guidance letter to state unemployment agencies stating they should expand jobless waivers to thousands of people and absolve those who received overpayments due to state error.
The bill allows workers at businesses of 26 or more employees to take up to two weeks paid time off to recover from the disease or address COVID-related responsibilities, and will be retroactive to Jan. 1 and expire on Sept. 30.
Having already spent millions on ads and more to come, officials are considering new ways to encourage vaccinations, which have stagnated. Over 6 million state residents have already been vaccinated.
The COVID-era Veteran Rapid Retraining Assistance Program has capacity to train more than 17,000 unemployed veterans, yet less than 700 have graduated from the program and it is set to expire in December.
Despite arriving first in affluent areas, Los Angeles County’s communities of color soon had the highest rate of COVID-19 cases. Only about 52 percent of Black and Latino residents are vaccinated.
Seven months after the decision was made, thousands of residents do not yet know that they will be able to keep the overpaid jobless aid, thanks to antiquated technology that continues to hobble the unemployment agency.
Across the state, they are short on staffing and funding, making some officials concerned that they will be unprepared should another public health crisis occur.
A group of incarcerated individuals in York County, Pa., are making civil liberties complaints about their access to legal support and health protections amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Preliminary data suggests that accidental drug overdose deaths decreased from 2020 to 2021, but it is unclear if the drop is due to the city’s response programs. In many ways COVID-19 has made help more accessible.
As 2022 begins, the omicron variant is proof that the pandemic is still far from over and remains politicized. More than 90 percent of Democratic adults have received at least one vaccination, compared with 60 percent of Republicans.
Since the surge began in December, some smaller law enforcement agencies have been forced to increase overtime, reduce services and reroute non-emergency calls to online portals.
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