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Published December 22. 2020 10:17PM
PROVIDENCE (AP) Rhode Island has earmarked all $1.25 billion it received from the federal coronavirus response legislation, Gov. Gina Raimondo said Tuesday.
The Democrat broke down the the state s spending allocations for the CARES Act during her final weekly COVID-19 briefing of the year.
Raimondo said a large chunk of it about $490 million has been allocated towards business and economic support. The Providence Journal reports another $288 million was designated to cover state workers responding to the pandemic while $136 million has gone to city and town workers responding to the virus.
The governor said the state also allocated $129 million to other public health response costs, about $117 million on education and $90 million toward cash assistance, food, housing assistance and other benefits for families and individuals.