CLOSE About $6.25 million will go specifically to help Mesa renters avoid eviction. Until now, that city program had made Mesa renters ineligible for the county program. (Photo: Getty Images) Maricopa County is tapping more than $20 million of its federal COVID-19 relief funds to expand programs to help struggling renters, overstretched nonprofits and […]
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President Trump Requires A Letter From Him To Be Placed In Food Aid Boxes To Help Reelection Campaign
KEY POINTS USDA is mandating the inclusion of a letter from President Trump in millions of boxes of surplus food for families in need USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program has distributed more than 100 million boxes to those in need since May The Trump administration denied the letter was political […]
Millions of children may miss pandemic food aid as states scramble to meet Trump administration mandate
In Pennsylvania, officials had planned to give out $128 per student to some 330,000 low-income students. But there simply isn’t time to do so under USDA’s new directive, officials told POLITICO. “It’s just hard to understand why the federal government is doing what it’s doing,” said Teresa Miller, secretary of […]