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Author: BY JASON DEPARLE - Publish Date: October 10, 2021 at 12:59AM President Biden’s social policy legislation aims to address a problem that weighs on many families — and the teachers and child care centers serving them.

Author: BY PAUL KRUGMAN - Publish Date: September 7, 2021 at 11:35PM The pandemic hasn’t ended; the rescue programs have.

Author: BY JIM TANKERSLEY AND BEN CASSELMAN - Publish Date: September 7, 2021 at 01:03AM The president has encouraged some states to continue helping the long-term unemployed, but administration officials say it was time for enhanced federal aid to end.

Author: BY RICHARD FAUSSET, SOPHIE KASAKOVE AND CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE - Publish Date: September 4, 2021 at 11:47PM A massive flood protection system built around New Orleans helped save it from flooding during Hurricane Ida. Surrounding communities, which weren’t so lucky, want their own system.

Author: BY CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE - Publish Date: August 6, 2021 at 12:02AM The Federal Emergency Management Agency will give states $3.5 billion to prepare for disasters, as wildfires and other calamities pummel the country.

Author: BY EMILY COCHRANE - Publish Date: August 3, 2021 at 02:55AM The legislation directs funding toward an expansive backlog of needed repairs and aims to shore up infrastructure to withstand climate change.

Author: BY MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN - Publish Date: August 2, 2021 at 11:42PM The Treasury Department expanded its guidance to allow states to use the $10 billion Homeowners Assistance Fund to help those with nontraditional home loans.

Author: BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - Publish Date: July 1, 2021 at 12:51AM Meeting virtually with governors of Western states, President Biden pledged federal assistance as the region grappled with record-breaking heat and a severe drought.

Author: BY BEN SISARIO, STACY COWLEY AND JULIA JACOBS - Publish Date: June 3, 2021 at 02:57AM The first applications for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program, offering $16 billion in federal aid, were approved.

Author: BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Publish Date: February 24, 2021 at 07:32AM Child poverty requires a permanent fix.

Author: BY STACY COWLEY AND JIM TANKERSLEY - Publish Date: February 23, 2021 at 06:34AM A more generous loan formula for solo ventures is meant to get more very small businesses into the Paycheck Protection Program. But bigger applicants face a two-week pause.

Author: BY CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE AND PATRICIA MAZZEI - Publish Date: February 2, 2021 at 07:32AM The administration plans to release $1.3 billion that was meant to help Puerto Rico rebuild after Hurricane Maria in 2017, and will remove restrictions on another $4.9 billion.

Author: BY STACY COWLEY - Publish Date: December 22, 2020 at 06:31AM The stimulus package being negotiated in Washington includes $285 billion for a renewed Paycheck Protection Program.

Author: BY EMILY COCHRANE - Publish Date: December 17, 2020 at 06:45AM The emerging compromise would provide emergency stimulus payments, jobless aid and rental assistance, extending help to businesses and funding the distribution of a vaccine. But more is likely to be needed.

Author: BY EMILY COCHRANE AND NICHOLAS FANDOS - Publish Date: December 5, 2020 at 06:44AM Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, have agreed to try to reach a deal that could be included in a must-pass spending measure.

Author: BY EMILY COCHRANE AND NICHOLAS FANDOS - Publish Date: October 21, 2020 at 06:45AM The top Senate Republican told colleagues that he had advised the White House against striking a pre-election deal with Democrats to deliver pandemic aid, fearing political repercussions.

Author: BY REED ABELSON - Publish Date: September 28, 2020 at 02:00PM Coverage is a major expense for employers, especially those in small businesses, as they deal with the pandemic’s economic fallout. Many may face end-of-year renewal deadlines that are harder and harder to afford.

Author: BY EMILY COCHRANE AND JIM TANKERSLEY - Publish Date: September 11, 2020 at 07:00AM A show vote in the Senate reflected a continuing partisan divide that appears increasingly likely to scuttle any recovery package to address the toll of the pandemic before the November election.

Author: BY EMILY COCHRANE AND JIM TANKERSLEY - Publish Date: September 11, 2020 at 07:00AM A show vote in the Senate reflected a continuing partisan divide that appears increasingly likely to scuttle any recovery package to address the toll of the pandemic before the November election.