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The coronavirus pandemic has steered the economy into the path of a recession. In Texas alone, the state’s unemployment rate remains high, and more than 2.9 million people have filed for unemployment relief since mid-March. The week ending July 11, a total of 105,590 Texans filed initial applications for unemployment relief. Texas’ sales tax revenues — the largest source of funding for the state budget — have also dropped and are expected to create a shortfall that officials will have to fill.
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Schools had previously been told that they would need to limit online-only instruction to the first three weeks of the school year, or they’d lose state funding.
Read moreAUSTIN - Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, Senate Finance Committee Chair Jane Nelson, Vice Chair Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, and House Appropriations Committee Chair Giovanni Capriglione and Vice Chair Oscar Longoria today announced that the State of Texas will allocate $200 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) for the purchase of eLearning devices and home internet solutions to enable remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic for Texas students that lack connectivity.
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The Terry County Commissioners Court met Monday for a regular scheduled meeting where the agenda took on the monthly reports.
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Local farmer Kirk Martin, president of the West Texas Young Farmers Association wrote a letter to U.S. District 19 House Rep. Jodey Arrington and requested to be involved with the restrictions that the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals placed on the dicamba herbicide. On June 3 the Ninth Circuit vacated the federal registration of three dicamba herbicide products that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had allowed for use. This became an instant controversy for farmers and producers all over the U.S.
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