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Hours after the nation’s death toll from the new coronavirus passed 1,000, the U.S. Senate approved the largest relief legislation in the country’s history, a package of nearly $2 trillion to help American workers and businesses.
A last-minute dispute over unemployment insurance threatened to scuttle the legislation but the Senate voted to pass it shortly before midnight Wednesday. Several senators were absent because of the virus.
Four Republican senators had earlier objected to the bill because, they said, it would provide a substantial expansion of unemployment insurance, could lead to layoffs and incentivize workers to collect unemployment payments rather than take a job.
The package is intended to prop up the U.S. economy, help American households and bolster the health care system amid the growing coronavirus crisis.
The package is intended to prop up the U.S. economy, help American households and bolster the health care system amid the growing coronavirus crisis.
Patch put together five things to know about the aid package, if approved by both the Senate and House, and what it could mean for you.
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Meanwhile, the Times reported, Federal Emergency Management Agency confirmed that New York State has asked the federal government to build emergency morgues as the number of confirmed cases in the state reached more than 30,000. North Carolina and Hawaii also submitted requests for the additional morgue space.
“These requests are currently in the review and approval process,” said FEMA spokeswoman Lizzie Litzow.
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A bill to postpone the 2020 Pennsylvania primary election to June due to the coronavirus outbreak has been passed. It now goes to Gov. Wolf.
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In what the district attorney called a ‘historic agreement,’ some low-level felony offenders will be released immediately amid COVID-19.
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