Playing politics with unemployment numbers: Not good form
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News involving millions of people being out of work probably shouldn’t be cause for making political hay.
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Spanberger to IRS: Resume customer service operations via telework
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Rep. Abigail Spanberger is leading an effort calling on the IRS to provide additional information on the status of economic impact payments to taxpayers in Central Virginia and across the country.
McEachin pushes inclusion of water shut-off prohibition in future COVID-19 stimulus
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Congressman A. Donald McEachin is requesting that any future COVID-19 stimulus legislation considered include a prohibition on water shutoffs as a condition for county governments to receive federal funding.
Warner, DelBene propose federal funds to states to modernize unemployment benefits technology
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) released the text of draft bicameral legislation to establish an emergency portable benefits fund for states.
CARES Act provides $7 million for improved affordable housing in Virginia
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine today applauded $7,387,190 in federal funding to help promote access to housing in the Commonwealth.
Morgan Griffith pressing Northam to allow churches to reopen
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Congressman Morgan Griffith is calling on Gov. Ralph Northam to “drop the unfair treatment of churches and permit them to resume worship services under the guidelines that allow other functions deemed essential to stay open.”
HUD awards $274,168 for housing assistance to low-income residents in Ninth District
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $274,168 to public housing agencies in Virginia’s Ninth District to support housing assistance for low-income residents.
Warner, Kaine tout $36M to support Virginia HBCUs amid COVID-19
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine applauded $36,475,848 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Education to support Virginia’s five HBCUs.
Virginia Water Center interns forge ahead to research environmental justice in the face of COVID-19
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Nizhoni Tallas and Ross Cooper of the College of Natural Resources and Environment have had to adjust to working remotely as interns at the Virginia Water Resources Research Center.
Virginia secures relief options for 200K Virginians with privately held student loans
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Millions of student loan borrowers with loans made by private lenders and federal loans not owned by the U.S. Government were left out of the relief included in the CARES Act passed by Congress last month.
