Whitmer s multi-billion dollar COVID-19 recovery plan sends money to schools, businesses
By FOX 2 Staff
LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer released an economic plan aimed at further propping up the state s economy and boosting operations in Michigan s public health, business and education systems.
The COVID Recovery Plan will target vaccine distribution, small business support, and increasing funds heading toward schools - a plan that allocates more than billions in federal and state dollars that partly come from unexpected revenue in 2020. Most of it has already been approved by Congress, but must be OK d by the legislature.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday announced the Michigan COVID Recovery Plan, which she said aims to grow the state s economy and help end the COVID-19 pandemic through $225 million in economic programs and $2 billion in funding for schools. (Carlos Osorio-Pool/Getty Images)
LANSING, MI Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday announced the Michigan COVID Recovery Plan, which she said aims to grow the state s economy and help end the COVID-19 pandemic through $225 million in economic programs and $2 billion in funding for schools.
The governor said the plan includes a focus on boosting the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and economic recovery for businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic. She also noted it includes an extension of unemployment benefits for those who lost their jobs during the pandemic.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has a plan that she says will cripple COVID-19, get students back in schools and residents back to work.The ambitious proposal, announced Tuesday and called the Michigan COVID Recovery Plan, relies heavily on federal funds already awarded to the state reports the Detroit Free Press.But it will also require legislative buy-in from a GOP-controlled Michigan statehouse that has balked at previous requests from Whitmer.The plan outlines how the governor wants to successfully
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When Terry Loftis looks back at the arts community in 2020, three words come to mind: inspiring, endurance and optimism. Loftis, the President and Executive Director of The Arts Community Alliance (TACA), announced $200,500 in grants to 30 Dallas arts organizations persevering through the coronavirus pandemic.
2020 is Loftis’ first calendar year to serve as TACA’s president and executive director. When he officially took over the job in late 2019, his goals included making TACA relevant, putting the arts advocacy group in a position of leadership for the arts community and cultivating art.
The pandemic accelerated those goals. “COVID comes along and just says, ‘Everything that you have planned and everything you didn’t have planned is now in play. Ready, set, go!’” Loftis said. “We’ve been running a gauntlet, but the upside to that is a lot of the long-term objectives I had set for TACA, we’ve already