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President Biden toured Manville, New Jersey, on Tuesday to survey the heavy damage caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida last week.

After her work as a substitute teacher in New York City dried up, Ameena Ahmed got a welcome $4,200 boost last summer in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits. Then New York state started taking it back. She was informed she was not entitled to the federal benefits for the summer of 2020 since city schools had previously told her there was…

About one-third of the states have used federal coronavirus relief aid to provide extra pay to workers who were considered essential during the coronavirus pandemic.

A FEMA hotline established to help get burial and funeral funds into the hands of New Yorkers unable to afford those expenses to take care of loved ones lost to COVID-19 went online Monday. Families who lost someone to the virus that decimated lives of New Yorkers since last spring are eligible for up to $9,000. The FEMA hotline is…

Schools across the U.S. are weighing how to use a windfall from the federal government’s latest coronavirus relief package

Standing in one of New York City’s hardest hit boroughs of the coronavirus pandemic, a pair of lawmakers outlined plans to get millions in federal aid funding to New Yorkers who have lost family members to COVID-19. New York Senator Chuck Schumer and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were in Queens on Monday to announce funeral benefits for families of low-income...

President Donald Trump’s administration has reversed course and approved a previously rejected California application for disaster relief funds to clean up damage from six recent wildfires

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew says the city informed him it cannot afford to pay $900 million in teachers’ back pay because of pandemic-related budget shortfall.

American Airlines said Thursday it plans to suspend service to 15 small U.S. cities with low demand in October after the terms of federal aid requiring the flights expires, a move that would cut off scheduled flights to nine destinations in as many states.

An Associated Press analysis shows that some of the least-populated states with relatively few coronavirus cases received an out-sized proportion of the $150 billion in federal money that was designed to address virus-related expenses.