Articles

• Author: Kelly Cooke
• Posted: 2024-07-14

The policy of any presidential administration can affect the distribution of grants to states. Certain preferences can result in states losing grant money if their individual laws run afoul of the feder...

• Author: Mary Singleton
• Posted: 2024-07-18

The recent killing of George Floyd has shown a spotlight on the racial disparities present in the United States. These permeate almost every aspect of daily lives in the U.S., whether it is safety, health or business. There are eve...

• Author: Monica Jackson
• Posted: 2024-06-30

Williamson County, located in Texas, is doing what it can to spur on the local economy there by offering $15 million in small business grants to qualified businesses. While a lot of people may hear this news ...

• Author: Jessica Williams
• Posted: 2024-06-25

After the $2.2 trillion stimulus a little over a month ago, America hasn't seen a real flattening of the curve, as they would have hoped for, and thus the economy is still largely shut down. This has caused...

• Author: Monica Jackson
• Posted: 2024-10-24

In the next phase of Congressional legislation to help those affected by COVID-19, it is likely that there will be massive aid to state and local governments. These authorities have seen their bu...

• Author: Monica Jackson
• Posted: 2024-10-30

Environmental justice is a concept that appeared in the United States in the 1980s. It aims to deal specifically with the idea that some corporations, politicians and other entities have committed injustices against the environmen...

• Author: Mary Singleton
• Posted: 2024-07-20

Roughly half of the federal government's $2.2 trillion virus stimulus package that was signed into effect last month was set to go to businesses, both large corporations and small businesses. The logic behind this...

• Author: Monica Jackson
• Posted: 2024-08-24

Part of the reason that the $2.2 trillion stimulus package from the federal government was so effective for the nation was that this was not the only source of funding. Most states in America actually contributed wh...

• Author: Chris Remington
• Posted: 2024-06-08

The CARES Act allocated $14 billion in total to help shore up the budgets of higher education who have been affected by COVID-19. These grants went to every single institute of higher education regardless of their own financ...

• Author: Chris Remington
• Posted: 2024-06-08

While the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is not a federal grant per se, it is federal financial assistance, which falls into a similar bucket. It becomes a grant if all of the employees are kept on the payroll fo...