Kearney Center lays off 20 employees, cites budget cuts following pandemic
Now that they are back at their main location, The Kearney Center says they cant afford to employ off-site staff.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â The Kearney Center is feeling an even greater impact from the pandemic.
Nearly two dozen employees are now out of a job.
Board chair Rick Kearney says they were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a month on hotels, apartments and other COVID-19 expenses and could not afford to keep off-site workers at the shelter.
With big cuts like layoffs, they re hoping the city and county will step in to help.
Latest India cyclone leaves thousands homeless
World
May 28, 2021
Digha, India: Thousands of people were homeless Thursday after a cyclone battered Covid-ravaged India and neighbouring Bangladesh, killing nine people including four children.
Cyclones are a regular menace in the northern Indian Ocean but many scientists say they are becoming more frequent and severe as climate change warms sea temperatures. Barely a week after Cyclone Tauktae claimed at least 155 lives in western India, Cyclone Yaas forced the evacuation of more than 1.5 million people in the eastern states of West Bengal and Odisha.
The storm hit on Wednesday with torrential rain and howling winds gusting up to 155 kilometres (96 miles) an hour, equivalent to a category two hurricane. Waves the size of double-decker buses pounded the shore and swamped towns and villages along the coastline, exacerbated by a higher-than-normal tide because of a full moon.
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