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A family playing miniature golf at the Golf N’ Stuff Family Fun Park in Los Angeles County. Stimulus payments have helped families cope with the economic shock caused by the pandemic.Credit.Philip Cheung for The New York Times
Good morning.
Today we’re going to talk about money, money, money or more precisely, government stimulus payments.
Several rounds of federal and state payments directed at individuals in 2020 and 2021 were intended to help people cope with the pandemic’s shock to the economy.
Each of them has different rules, but all of them are pegged to taxable income. In a recent report, the California Policy Lab estimated that up to 2.2 million eligible Californians will not get up to $5.7 billion in federal payments because they earn too little to file tax returns and therefore aren’t popping up in government computer systems.
All Adults in the State Can Now Get a Vaccine. You Just Have to Find One.
Thursday: Getting a Covid-19 vaccination hasn’t been easy. Will that change now that the state has expanded eligibility?
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Good morning.
Today, every Californian age 16 and older is officially eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine.
That doesn’t mean it will be easy for everyone get a shot right away though.
The vaccine rollout has been chaotic, according to various news reports and hundreds of emails sent to us by California Today readers.
Government sites like My Turn as well as the sites of pharmacy chains and hospital networks have been unreliable when it comes to booking appointments, sometimes offering many slots and sometimes making empty promises of callbacks or emails when new slots become available.
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The End of Californiaâs Lockdowns
Wednesday: State officials said they planned to lift all pandemic restrictions except the mask mandate on June 15.
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Good morning.
Today, weâre starting with some big news: There will be no green tier after all. In fact, very soon, weâre set to say goodbye to the purple, red, orange and yellow tiers that have for months dictated so much about our lives.
The move will allow Californians â regardless of which county they live in â to return to restaurants, bars, movie theaters, houses of worship and concerts without strict capacity limits for the first time in more than a year. President Biden has said there will be enough vaccines available for all adults in the country by the end of May.