by Alisa Nelson | Apr 20, 2020 | Business, Education, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt, Transportation
Gov. Mike Parson is freezing another $47 million in the current state budget to help Missouri fight the coronavirus. The largest chunks of funding being withheld are nearly $16 million to K-12 education and $7.1 million in school bus transportation costs. During...
by Alisa Nelson | Apr 20, 2020 | Business, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
The $359 billion Paycheck Protection Program to help small businesses during the coronavirus crisis went broke in less than two weeks. Congress is working on a $350 billion plan to inject more money into the program. Missouri Congressman Emanuel Cleaver tells Kansas...
by Alisa Nelson | Apr 20, 2020 | Health / Medicine, Military, News, Politics / Govt
Some long-term care centers for senior citizens have had coronavirus outbreaks in Missouri and nationwide. Missouri Veterans Commission Executive Director Grace Link says she thinks the state’s seven veterans homes have gone above and beyond the private sector to help...
by Alisa Nelson | Apr 17, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
Gov. Mike Parson held his regular 3 p.m. briefing about the coronavirus. He says he hopes most Missouri businesses will reopen on May 4. The governor extended his stay-at-home order until then and says the extension gives the state more time to do additional testing...
by Alisa Nelson | Apr 17, 2020 | News
More Missourians than ever before are out of work. Since the coronavirus started creeping its way into the state’s economy in mid-March, more than 339,000 people have requested unemployment aid. That’s nearly double the amount of jobless claims filed in all of 2019....