House GOP ties half of $13 billion pandemic relief plan to limiting Whitmer spending power
Updated Apr 20, 2021;
Posted Apr 20, 2021
The Michigan State Capitol building pictured in Lansing on Thursday, April 25, 2019. Neil Blake | MLive.comNeil Blake | MLive.com
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This story was updated with comment from the Michigan State Budget Office.
LANSING, MI - Michigan has only used about half of its previously allocated $5.6 billion in federal COVID-19 relief.
House Republicans want to combine the rest of that unused amount with about $10 billion in new federal relief and state funds to allocate $13 billion towards pandemic relief.
The plan, proposed Tuesday, April 20 by House Appropriations Committee Chair Rep. Thomas Albert, R-Lowell, would fund a variety of programs, including vaccine distribution, COVID-19 testing, food assistance, remedial school education and road repairs.
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CSA (community supported agriculture)
The definition: According to Merriam-Webster, community-supported agriculture, or CSA, is a ”system in which a farm is supported by local consumers who purchase prepaid shares in the farm’s output which they receive periodically throughout the growing season.”
Dazmonique Carr of Deeply Rooted Produce
Dazmonique Carr is the co-founder of Detroit’s Deeply Rooted Produce, which offers a CSA program. “We’re letting people buy into the shares of our operation, and in exchange for their money, they’ll get produce either weekly or biweekly,” she explains.
The origins: According to a 1993 excerpt from a text titled “Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): An Annotated Bibliography and Resource Guide,” community supported agriculture is a relatively “new idea in farming, one that has been gaining momentum since its introduction to the United States from Europe in the mid-1980s. The
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Water crisis took toll on Flint adults’ physical, mental health
Since state austerity policies initiated a potable water crisis seven years ago in Flint, Michigan, public health monitoring has focused on potential developmental deficits associated with lead exposure in adolescents or fetuses exposed in utero.
New research from Cornell and the University of Michigan offers the first comprehensive evidence that the city’s adult residents suffered a range of adverse physical and mental health symptoms potentially linked to the crisis in the years during and following it, with Black residents affected disproportionately.
In a survey of more than 300 residents, 10% reported having been diagnosed by a clinician with elevated blood lead levels – well above national averages – after a state-appointed city manager, as part of a cost-saving measure, switched the city’s water source to one that became contaminated with lead and harmful bacteria on April 25, 2014.
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