$655 million in Rescue Plan funds provided to Pennsylvania’s struggling child care sector
Pennsylvania has been allocated $655 million under the American Rescue Plan to assist child care providers.
By Oliver Willis - April 08, 2022Pennsylvania has been allocated $655 million under the American Rescue Plan to assist child care providers.
By Oliver Willis - April 08, 2022Under former President Donald Trump, several attempts were made to cut funding to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Fair Housing Initiatives Program.
By Oliver Willis - April 07, 2022The grant is part of the Biden administration’s effort to create new jobs in former coal-mining regions.
By Oliver Willis - April 01, 2022Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she would sign the bill, which allocates $1.7 billion toward clean water projects in the state.
By Oliver Willis - March 25, 2022The American Rescue Plan has provided billions of dollars in support for rural families.
By Oliver Willis - March 03, 2022A year before touting the broadband project, Gov. Brian Kemp said the American Rescue Plan was a ‘slap in the face’ to Georgia.
By Oliver Willis - March 01, 2022President Joe Biden’s stimulus package sent out more than $400 billion in funding to small-business owners to keep them afloat in the first year of his presidency.
By Josh Axelrod - February 22, 2022Republicans whined about last month’s jobs report. Now that the December totals have been revised up, they’ve been silent or dismissive.
By Josh Axelrod - February 04, 2022Donald Trump repeatedly tried to end the federal program that provides energy assistance funds to people with lower incomes.
By Oliver Willis - February 03, 2022The country is seeing faster job growth under President Joe Biden than under the last three Republican presidents combined, according to policy experts.
By Josh Axelrod - January 28, 2022Senate Republicans previously supported giving stimulus payments to incarcerated Americans — when Donald Trump was in office.
By Josh Israel - January 26, 2022Families also expressed optimism about fuel and food costs in a survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
By Oliver Willis - January 10, 2022The U.S. economy has added 7 million jobs since President Joe Biden took office.
By Oliver Willis - January 07, 2022The December jobs report from payroll company ADP surpassed economists’ expectations.
By Josh Axelrod - January 05, 2022The U.S. economy is expected to grow by nearly 8% between 2020 and 2022 — ‘a direct effect’ of the American Rescue Plan, according to a new report.
By Nick Vachon - December 14, 2021The Biden administration’s COVID-19 stimulus package has helped keep 3 million American children out of poverty, according to one recent study.
By Oliver Willis - December 06, 2021The aid helps to create a cushion that limits the shock of higher energy costs ahead of winter.
By Associated Press - November 21, 2021Republican Gov. Doug Ducey is touting a $100 million expansion of high-speed broadband that not a single GOP member of Arizona’s congressional delegation voted for.
By Emily Singer - November 15, 2021Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) introduced a bill that appeared to take aim at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over a debunked video.
By Josh Israel - November 01, 2021Since passage of the American Rescue Plan, unemployment has dropped to its lowest point since the coronavirus pandemic began.
By Josh Israel - October 21, 2021Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) said Democrats should not raise the debt limit when there are unspent appropriated funds.
By Josh Israel - October 13, 2021‘Thanks to these monthly payments, every member of my family is able to get enough to eat.’
By Stormy Johnson - October 13, 2021The temporary federal benefits that Republicans claim are ‘incentivizing’ Americans to stay home ended in early September.
By Josh Israel - October 12, 2021New Hampshire Republicans say they’re stalling approval of funding in protest of President Joe Biden’s new vaccine mandates, among other complaints.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - September 20, 2021While the White House has encouraged states to keep distributing benefits by using money from the stimulus bills, no states have opted to do so.
By Associated Press - September 07, 2021Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) has opposed all of President Joe Biden’s jobs legislation.
By Josh Israel - August 25, 2021Study after study has shown the opposite.
By Josh Israel - August 23, 2021Republican lawmakers who previously had plenty to say about ‘disappointing’ job growth are silent in the wake of the July jobs report.
By Josh Israel - August 06, 2021Two House Republicans from the Keystone State were part of what House Speaker Pelosi called the GOP’s ‘vote no, take the dough’ effort.
By Josh Israel - August 04, 2021New research shows rural Americans, particularly those in red states, will receive the greatest relative benefits from Democrats’ child tax credit expansion.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - August 03, 2021