“It was extremely difficult to get ahold of anyone,” Laichas said. She said the government workers she did end up reaching “were of no help” in explaining why her claims were rejected seven times. When the pandemic hit and threw a wrench into Ohio kids’ education, the state launched a savings account program to reimburse […]
The Treasure Coast real estate market in May saw more homes listed, more homes sold, a stagnant or decreased median sale price and longer to get a signed contract compared to April, according to local Realtor data. Active listings totaled 3,915 in May, surpassing early COVID pandemic numbers that peaked at 4,293 in March 2020, […]
Mediapunch / Shutterstock.com Suze Orman is sounding the alarm on a looming “financial pandemic” as Americans eclipse $1 trillion in total credit card debt. She worries that many households won’t be able to keep up with their payments and that the government won’t bail them out. That means if you have debt, Orman says you’ll […]
Jun. 25—After the pandemic’s outbreak, rising costs led the city’s past administration to place the award-winning program Keep Harlingen Beautiful on hold while shutting down the Harlingen Recycling Center, a key funding source. Now, city leaders are jump-starting the beautification program, with a new board of directors planning to tap a grant coming from a […]
Nearly $200 billion in emergency school funding spent during and after the pandemic succeeded in lifting students’ achievement in math and reading, according to two papers released Wednesday. Test score increases in both studies, which were conducted independently of one another, indicate that states and school districts used the money to effectively support children, even […]
BALTIMORE — A Baltimore man who prepared applications for nearly $18 million in fraudulent pandemic relief loans in exchange for kickbacks received 7 years in prison Tuesday at his sentencing in federal court. The scheme led by Ahmed Sary, 46, is the largest pandemic fraud seen in the District of Maryland, a prosecutor said, involving […]
Since the pandemic started in 2020, a lot of things have changed. So when Reddit user u/I_Groped_SandyCheeks asked: “What things did the 2020 pandemic ruin?” a lot of people had thoughts on the matter. Here’s what they had to say below. 1.“24-hour stores and supply chains. Even today, more than four years later, there are […]
The bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle has so far spilled over to just three farmworkers in the United States, as far as public health authorities know. All of them have had mostly mild symptoms. But that does not guarantee that the virus, called H5N1, will remain benign if it begins to spread among people. […]
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said he predicts a bird flu pandemic will happen — it’s just a matter of when that will be. Redfield joined NewsNation on Friday to discuss the growing concern for bird flu, as the virus has been detected in dozens of cattle across the […]
BOSTON – A Plymouth man was sentenced to supervised release for stealing COVID-19 relief money, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Ferris Brooks, 41, was sentenced June 3 by U.S. Senior District Court Judge William G. Young to three years of supervised release, with the first six months to be served in home confinement. Brooks pled […]
With the Geneva spring watch auction season behind us, we find no echoing headlines, no tectonic shifts, and nary a memorable surprise. Geneva’s auction results were healthy enough, but the action on the floor was mostly serene. Serenity seems to be the tone across the watch industry in 2024, from quieter collections to steadier sales […]
This article was originally published in CT Mirror. The administrators of the Hartford Public Schools system have a problem. Left with a nearly $37 million budget hole despite pleas for more local and state funding to plug holes left by the expiration of federal pandemic aid, they will, in the coming weeks, sort out the […]