Center on Budget & Policy Priorities: Tribal Nations - Highly Vulnerable to COVID-19 - Need More Federal Relief
April 02, 2020
April 02, 2020
WASHINGTON, April 2 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following blog:
By providing $8 billion for 574 federally recognized tribes in its $150 billion Coronavirus Relief Fund for tribal, state, local, and territorial governments, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act marked a historic federal recognition of tribes -- contrasting sharply with the 2009 Recovery Act, which excluded tribes from its major state fiscal relief. Still, policymakers wil . . .
By providing $8 billion for 574 federally recognized tribes in its $150 billion Coronavirus Relief Fund for tribal, state, local, and territorial governments, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act marked a historic federal recognition of tribes -- contrasting sharply with the 2009 Recovery Act, which excluded tribes from its major state fiscal relief. Still, policymakers wil . . .