On May 12, Reps. Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (Pa.-15) and Dwight Evans (Pa.-03) introduced the “Assistance and Gratitude for Coronavirus Heroes in Agribusiness who are Invaluable to the Nation,” or the AG CHAIN Act. The bill is an extension of the previously introduced GROCER Act. The bill would provide a federal tax holiday and a payroll […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is increasingly looking like an imperfect microcosm of the challenges that all Americans face in keeping the coronavirus at bay as huge swaths of the nation move to reopen. Two aides who work in the White House complex are known to have tested positive in the past week for […]

Temple University Hospital received $50 million in the latest round of relief funds under the federal coronavirus economic rescue package, twice as much as it received in last month’s first round of aid to hospitals and other medical providers nationwide. The difference? The $12 billion distributed last week is for 395 hospitals that treated 100 […]

Congressman Dwight Evans (D-Phila.) is urging Gov. Tom Wolf and Mayor Jim Kenney to include the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium as part of a coordinated City and State strategy to reach the highly vulnerable African American community. Evans sent a letter to Wolf and Kenney urging the consortium be included and outlining his concerns. Councilman […]

By Alan K. Ota · April 27, 2020, 5:38 PM EDT Lawmakers in both parties are rallying behind new tax incentives to reward first responders, health care providers and other key workers as part of a new relief package aimed at ensuring delivery of essential goods and services during the COVID-19 pandemic. House Speaker Nancy […]

Dive Brief: Federal lawmakers are considering a bipartisan bill that would allow grocery and convenience store workers who earn less than $75,000 per year to avoid paying federal income tax on up to $25,000 in wages they receive between Feb. 15 and June 15, 2020. The bill, known as the Giving Retailers and Our Convenience Employees Relief (GROCER) […]

By Ayana Jones PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, D-3rd District, is calling on local and state government officials to ensure coronavirus testing efforts are reaching Pennsylvania’s vulnerable African American community. The congressman addressed his concerns in a letter to Mayor Jim Kenney and Gov. Tom Wolf. “The high diagnosis and death rate from the […]

When the Small Business Administration rolled out emergency coronavirus relief loans, most big banks were automatically eligible to participate as lenders. But community banks and nonprofit, mission-based lenders were excluded — and U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans (D., Pa.) wants to change that. The Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, was a $350 billion loan program tapped […]

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent Congressional Democrats reached an agreement with the Trump administration on an interim coronavirus emergency relief package that provides support and fixes to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), as well as increased funding for emergency disaster loans and grants, hospitals, health care providers and testing. Senate Majority Leader […]