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The U.S. Census Bureau, in coordination with federal, state and local health officials, will begin to drop off 2020 Census questionnaire packets at front doors of households in Illinois in the week of June 1. This is done in areas where the majority of households do not receive mail at their physical address. The Census Bureau began hand-delivering census materials on March 15, but suspended all fieldwork for this operation on March 18 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Once again, the persistent disparities in our society, our physical well-being, and our economy have emerged with brutal clarity under the impact of the coronavirus. The pandemic’s devastation on the least secure is widespread across multiple facets of life and profound in impact.
Bold, Transformative Legislation Meets the Challenge of the Coronavirus Pandemic
WASHINGTON — House Democrats today introduced The Heroes Act, a bold and comprehensive coronavirus response bill that will meet the challenge this pandemic poses to our nation.
The more than $3 trillion legislation protects the lives and livelihoods of the American people. Among its many provisions, the bill:
NEAL, WYDEN, LEWIS, AND DAVIS CONDEMN TRUMP RULE ENABLING FURTHER HARM TO LGBTQ+ AND NATIVE AMERICAN FOSTER YOUTH
The letter is below and HERE
May 1, 2020
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There is still time to act, SSI recipients who did not file a tax return in 2018 or 2019 and who have qualifying dependents should immediately go to the IRS’s Non-Filer Tool to provide information about themselves and their children. They need to act by Tuesday, May 5, 2020 to receive the full amount of their Economic Impact Payments as soon as possible.
WASHINGTON, DC –This week, Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-IL) and Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) led a bipartisan letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig to advocate a simple, expedited procedure for vulnerable youth – including homeless and foster youth - to receive Economic Impact Payments when they may have been claimed as dependents on their parents’ tax returns.
Representatives Danny K. Davis, Barbara Lee and Terri Sewell lead letter to Speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader McCarthy calling for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to quickly develop a program for Medicare/Medicaid and Medicaid beneficiaries to improve access to comprehensive outpatient care for individuals with sickle cell disease.
The letter is below and HERE.
May 1, 2020