USDA awards $671 million for pandemic payments to frontline workers

Fourteen nonprofit organizations and the Cherokee Nation will distribute $671 million in pandemic payments of $600 per person to farmworkers, meatpacking employees and frontline grocery workers, said the Agriculture Department on Tuesday. “Relief provided through this program is intended to cover costs for reasonable (health and safety) expenses related to the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Agriculture… » Read More

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