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Minnesota Senate OKs $209 million budget addition
ST. PAUL Minnesota senators want to tack $209 million onto a $39 billion, two-year budget that state leaders enacted a year ago. They also want to see how North Dakota s oil boom is affecting Minnesota. The Senate voted 37-27 Tuesday night to .
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ST. PAUL Minnesota senators want to tack $209 million onto a $39 billion, two-year budget that state leaders enacted a year ago.
They also want to see how North Dakota s oil boom is affecting Minnesota.
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The Senate voted 37-27 Tuesday night to increase spending for many programs, including nearly $95 million for health programs among them raising payments for home health care providers. The measure also ups public school spending $41 million and higher education funding $26 million.
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1. So many front-line workers sought help paying COVID-19 costs, North Dakota stopped taking applications
After almost 3,000 of North Dakota s first responders and health care workers applied for funds to help cover their COVID-19-related medical expenses, the state stopped accepting applications Wednesday, Dec. 16, due to the overwhelming response.
Earlier this month, the North Dakota Legislature approved allocating $2.5 million of the state s federal pandemic stimulus funds to create the Medical Expense Assistance Program to help first responders and front-line health care workers pay for COVID-19 expenses. Applicants could only qualify for the funds if they tested positive for COVID-19, and had not applied or were rejected for worker s compensation.