President Biden nears the end of his first 100 days in office with a slight majority of Americans approving of his performance and supporting his major policy initiatives, but his approval rating is lower than any recent past presidents except Donald Trump.
Biden plans to unveil details of his “American Families Plan,” which reportedly includes universal pre-K, free community college and extension of a major child tax credit through 2025, at his first State of the Union speech on Wednesday.
The General Fund proposal reflects a 17.9-percent increase over the budget for the 2020/2021 Fiscal year.
Revenue sources for the General Fund are consistent year to year and include local sales tax, intergovernmental (state shared), permits and licenses, fines and fees and other sources.
Local sales tax is by far the largest revenue source, with a projection of $14,262,000 for the upcoming year, an expected 34 percent increase over the current year.
The state shared revenues will account for $6,645,000, with is a reduction of about 3 percent from this past year. Another $1,271,000 in permits and licenses is unchanged from the current year. The amount collected from fines and fees is budgeted at $421,000, and the âotherâ category accounts for $115,000.
Not only have women been disproportionately impacted by job loss during the pandemic, but more than 1.8 million women have also left the labor force since February 2020, according to the National Women s Law Center, meaning they are no longer looking or applying for work.
This mass exit has been attributed to the ongoing caregiving crisis women face, with mothers three times as likely as fathers to be responsible for housework and child care during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a September report released by Lean In and McKinsey & Company. Mothers are also twice as likely as fathers to worry that their work performance is being judged negatively because of their caregiving duties during the pandemic. As a result, experts say a lack of paid family and medical leave, along with the closure of many schools and child-care centers, has led millions of women to leave the workplace.
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