Taipei, Dec. 8 (CNA) Players from the Taoyuan Leopards, including newly recruited eight-time NBA all-star Dwight Howard, stopped by a junior high school in the city on Wednesday for a scrimmage and meet and greet with students.
EDITORIAL: Effective use of virus relief funds
Lawmakers on Wednesday called on the government to include the food service, hospitality, transportation and entertainment industries in its latest “Stimulus 4.0” COVID-19 relief package. Workers in uninsured industries are bearing the brunt of nationwide level 3 restrictions, Taiwan People’s Party caucus convener Chiu Chen-yuan (邱臣遠), Independent Taipei City Councilor Chen Chien-ming (陳建銘) and others told an online news conference.
Although the Taipei Department of Social Welfare is accepting applications for emergency relief, it has not yet created any programs or allocated funding for pandemic aid, leaving the city’s underprivileged “high and dry,” Chen said.
Lawmakers and taxi unions yesterday called on the government to include the food service, hospitality, transportation and entertainment industries in a “Stimulus 4.0” relief package, saying that “lacking money is even scarier than the virus.”
Taxi drivers, restaurants, hotels and especially those without labor insurance, such as magnolia sellers and human billboard advertisers, have been the first to bear the brunt of level 3 COVID-19 restrictions, Taiwan People’s Party caucus convener Chiu Chen-yuan (邱臣遠) told a virtual news conference.
Most of these people cannot work amid level 3 restrictions, yet the only round of emergency relief grants available to them ended last