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The UN-backed fund is seeking at least $5 billion for its Raise Your Hand
campaign for 2021-2025 to support 90 lower-income countries and territories.
He said it was an ambitious target but the money was the best way to help transform education standards in poorer nations and invest in a sustainable future.
Reflecting on the devastating effect
of the coronavirus, Mr Thiam said the fallout “is especially acute in lower-income and conflict-affected countries, where children have been hit hard by the pandemic and faced the highest risk of dropping out permanently”.
“To this day, over half of the world’s children are still facing major disruptions to their learning, ranging from full school closures to reduced or part-time schools.
This latest federal relief money, along with money from earlier relief packages that’s not yet spent, is essentially a large and separate one-time supplement to the state’s quarter-trillion-dollar budget. Credit: Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune
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The Texas Legislature’s budget writers have left more than $38 billion in federal COVID-19 relief out of the budgets they’re writing, as they try to sort through the details and the politics attached to that money.
Analysis: A Texas state budget minus $38.6 billion in federal stimulus money
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The Texas Legislature’s budget writers have left more than $38 billion in federal COVID-19 relief out of the budgets they’re writing, as they try to sort through the details and the politics attached to that money.
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