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While Republican support for raising the minimum wage was already low, the pandemic makes it even less likely to change.

Gov. Tom Wolf is already resigned to the GOP-controlled legislature blocking his plan for $7 billion in federal stimulus money.

The aid is targeted at businesses with fewer than 300 employees that have lost at least 25% of their sales as a result of the pandemic.

Amid surging job loss due to COVID-19, a no-bid contract led to bungled unemployment payments to people who weren’t given timely information about errors.

Applications open next month for $145 million in grants for small businesses, with a significant change by lawmakers intended to make it more accessible to people of color.

It will force Democrats to make politically painful choices about what to do next on the federal minimum wage, which has long caused internal party rifts.

Money is designed to recycle industrial locations for new uses.

Congressional forecasters expect the federal deficit will hit the second largest in decades, even without factoring in President Biden's proposed $1.9 trillion relief plan.

Biden has called to more than double the federal minimum wage as part of his economic relief plan.

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Friday's figures reflect a faltering job market, slowed by a pandemic that is still causing consumers to avoid traveling, shopping and dining out.

While progressive donors and PACs came out for Krasner, police unions, former prosecutors and Sean Schellenger’s mother have supported Vega.

The positions are just a sliver of SEPTA’s 9,400-strong workforce, but the handful of part-timers collectively cost the agency about $1 million a year.

Most of the $912 million being directed by the bill is federal aid approved by Congress in last month's coronavirus recovery package.

Some problems stem from a lag between when the first pandemic stimulus funds expired and the time it took to get the second relief package up and running.