发生了什么:眼睛
remained on Capitol Hill as leaders talked toward a deal, yet to come as of
this writing, on a 新型冠状病毒肺炎 relief package. 在州一级，州长. 罗伊•库珀
extended his Phase 2 Safer At Home order another five weeks.
单词的含义是:不
deal is in, talking points about local government needs are circulating in D.C.
According to the National League of Cities, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
has repeated the message that relief to state 和 local governments will help
keep millions of people off of the unemployment rolls in the months
之前.
即席:交易，
希望. We’ve also learned the 人口普查局 will wrap up its community
outreach efforts at the end of September, one month earlier than previously
计划. 的 Census plays a big role in how much federal money communities get
overall with a variety of programs 和 opportunities, so it’s important your
community participates to the fullest.
瘦子:当我们工作的时候
toward help for our communities, we got a reminder of how fragile circumstances
are in a usual summer as Hurricane Isaias shoved ashore early this week,
damaging property 和 spinning off a suspected tornado blamed for two deaths.
的
North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund is taking donations to offset needs in impacted
区域. Read on for more from this week.
北卡罗来纳会留下来
in the Phase 2 Safer At Home stage another five weeks as state officials seek
more progress in slowing down 新型冠状病毒肺炎. “Other states that lifted restrictions
quickly have had to go backward as their hospital capacity ran dangerously low
和 their cases jumped higher. We will not make that mistake in North
卡罗来纳州州长说. 罗伊•库珀 in a press release. 国家卫生和人类
Service Secretary M和y Cohen said North Carolina’s numbers have leveled, but
没有保证. “While overall we are seeing signs of stability, we still
有很多工作要做吗. Our recent trends show us what is possible when we commit
to slowing the spread by wearing face coverings 和 following those simple but
强大的3w，”科恩说. 的 “3Ws” are “wear a mask,” “wash your h和s,”
"保持距离.你可以查看 slides on the trends 和 metrics online. 在一个 单独的新闻稿, the state says it has distributed roughly 3.五百万布面
覆盖物,4.5 million procedure masks 和 “significant amounts” of other
personal protective equipment.
美国.S. 人口普查局 已经宣布 it will close out its community outreach operations by the end of
September, but before then will hire extra staffers to complete the data
collection that will add up to the 2020 Census results. “人口普查局的
new plan reflects our continued commitment to conduct a complete count, provide
accurate apportionment data, 和 protect the health 和 safety of the public
和 our workforce,” the Bureau explained. 的 decennial headcount has coincided
with 新型冠状病毒肺炎’s unprecedented limitations on most operations, but the Bureau says
它有信心能够生产. “We will improve the speed of our count without
sacrificing completeness,” Bureau Director Steven 迪林厄姆说. 局
says it’s working with President Trump’s 行政命令 和 7月21日备忘录 regarding the exclusion of non-citizens. “有一个专家团队
examining methodologies 和 options to be employed for this purpose,”
迪林厄姆说.
日益增长的问题
struggling utilities, like water systems, in rural North Carolina has made it
into headlines around the state lately. 现在,一个
深入的作品 在几个地方跑步
newspapers takes a longer look at the issue 和 taps the League for comments.
的 gist: 新型冠状病毒肺炎 和 the health restrictions 和 consumer inactivity around
it are dealing crippling blows to an array of operations including utility providers,
which until just recently were not allowed to disconnect service for
拒付. Many of these utilities were already working through difficult math
在经济繁荣时期. “这场危机，这场
p和emic, has created its own set of problems but basically it's layered those
problems on top of some already existing problems for a number of small, rural
municipal systems out there,” the newspaper article quotes of Scott Mooneyham,
director of political communications 和 coordination for the League. “他们
become overwhelming in some places.” 的 piece goes on to quote several local
和 state officials before turning its eye to Capitol Hill 和 the negotiations
going on there toward a relief package that may or may not include local-level
生命线. Mooneyham pointed out that the CARES Act money approved months ago
came with restrictions preventing use in the replacement of lost revenue.
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