“According to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the senior senator from New York, $3.907 billion of the $1.9 trillion plan goes to New York’s counties, with $825 million for the state’s small cities and towns.
Funds may be used by state and local governments for:
Costs associated with responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency or its negative economic impacts, including but not limited to, assistance to households, small businesses, and nonprofits or aid to impacted industries such as tourism, travel, and hospitality
To support workers performing essential work during the COVID-19 public health emergency by providing premium pay to eligible workers or by providing grants to eligible employers that have eligible workers who perform essential work
To cover revenue losses caused by the COVID-19 public health emergency
To make necessary investments in water, sewer, or broadband infrastructure”
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Sheridan, Johan. Channel 10 News 8 March 2021.
