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EAST WINDSOR — Small businesses and nonprofit organizations can breathe a sigh of relief as the town on Monday announced the creation of a microgrant program designed to assist them with recovering from the pandemic.
On hand for the announcement, which took place under the band shell at the town park, was First Selectman Jason E. Bowsza; U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal; Sen. M. Saud Anwar, D-South Windsor; U.S. Rep. John B. Larson, D-1st District; Rep. Carol Hall, R-Enfield, and several small business owners and nonprofit representatives.
Long-term care providers would be required to ensure essential caregivers have continued visitation access during future public health emergencies under a new bipartisan proposal.
Opponents of Social Security are latching onto the worldwide pandemic and resulting economic collapse to, at best, undermine confidence in Social Security and, at worst, slash its modest benefits. Here are the facts.
Today marks Social Security's 85th anniversary. For 85 years, it has provided millions of Americans with peace of mind that they will have support in their retirement. It has never missed a payment. However, Social Security is now under assault. The Trump administration and Republicans have hatched an ill-advised plan that would defund Social Security, jeopardizing the nation's most popular program at the very time that Americans need these benefits most.
They come every year to the same place, an urban hospital that treats gun trauma and, in 2020, tests for a novel coronavirus. It sits in a census tract where 90% of the residents are black or Hispanic, 40% live in poverty and 15% of the apartments are vacant.
A doctor introduces the speakers, the politicians and mothers of dead children come to mark National Gun Violence Awareness Day. It fell this year on the 52nd anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy as he celebrated a presidential primary win.
Washington – The U.S. House late Friday approved a massive, $3 trillion coronavirus spending package that would, among other things, provide a second round of $1,200 stimulus checks, $200 billion in hazard pay for essential workers – including those at Electric Boat shipyards– and extend the federal $600-per-week unemployment benefits for six more months.
The HEROES Act, was approved on a 208-199 vote, with the unanimous support of Connecticut's House members, all Democrats.
The Democratic chairmen of two House panels are scrutinizing a State Department plan to overhaul Social Security that they say unfairly takes away Americans' entitlement benefits in exchange for a quick cash payment.
Congressman John Larson is the only member of the Connecticut congressional delegation asked to be part of the "Opening Up America Again" congressional group assembled by President Donald Trump. This group is a sprawling and nominally bipartisan assemblage that features three times as many Republicans as Democrats.
WASHINGTON DC (WFSB) - A bill aimed at creating bonds, such as those made during World War II, to help fund the federal government's public coronavirus response will be introduced on Wednesday.
Rep. John Larson, who represents Connecticut's 1st District, called it the Victory Bonds Act of 2020.
The bill will direct the Department of the Treasury to create government savings bonds, with all revenue directed to funding the federal government's public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic and support for small businesses.