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Provide support for first responders and other essential workers. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, first responders, frontline public health workers, and countless other essential workers have risked their lives to keep our communities safe and functioning. Educators have worked tirelessly to keep our children learning and growing, coming up with new ways to reach and engage their students, often while balancing caring for their own children. Without these front line workers, we will not be able to effectively respond to the pandemic, administer the vaccine, or safely reopen our schools. President-elect Biden is calling on Congress to provide $350 billion in emergency funding for state, local, and territorial governments to ensure that they are in a position to keep front line public workers on the job and paid, while also effectively distributing the vaccine, scaling testing, reopening schools, and maintaining other vital services. The president-elect is also calling on Congress to … [Read more...] about Joe Biden’s Treasury nominee Janet Yellen tells Congress to act on ‘widespread devastation’ caused by COVID by passing $1.9tn package or face even longer recessions

Up to 36 towns and cities have signed up to the Department for Transport's 12-month scheme, which makes it legal to ride e-scooters on roads - however, they need to be rented and need to be capped at 15.5mph.  … [Read more...] about Has he got a death wish? Man is caught by police riding his E-SCOOTER along the M1 motorway in darkness while it was pouring with rain

Many retailers in his neighborhood have already given up. "For rent" signs are posted every few meters on a shuttered storefront. Only a few pensioners stroll across the town hall square just around the corner on this winter morning. There's never much going on here in the middle of January. But the one or other group of vacationers would certainly snap a few selfies in front of the gnarled olive tree or sit on one of the sunny bar terraces with a latte — if it weren't for the coronavirus pandemic. … [Read more...] about Mallorca without tourists: The impact of the coronavirus pandemic