New York State was rightly celebrated for its 2021 $2.1 billion dollar Excluded Worker Fund (EWF), providing direct payments to essential, low-income, immigrant workers and their families who had suffered economic loss due to the pandemic but were excluded from some federal pandemic relief efforts, including unemployment insurance and payments from the federal CARES Act.
Remittances from workers to their families in Mexico are shattering records as family members send money and even donated food cans to keep their relatives afloat.
Congresswoman Johanna Hayes, state Representatives Antonio Felipe and Steve Stafstrom, top members of Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim’s staff and City Council President Aidee Nieves all tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week.