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As People Lose Jobs Due to the Coronavirus Crisis and Enroll in Medicaid, Survey Finds States Anticipate Medicaid Budget Shortfalls : Medicaid. Without additional federal support, state budgets for the forthcoming fiscal year ? which begins July 1 for most states ? will likely include significant spending cuts, including for Medicaid, at a time when demand for services is growing, the survey suggests.

USDA Approves Program to Feed Kids in Louisiana and Indiana : Children who have temporarily lost access to free or reduced-price school meals due to pandemic-related school closures. State agencies may operate Pandemic EBT when a school is closed for at least five consecutive days during a public health emergency designation during which the school would otherwise be in session.

Nurses Give Blood Encourage Others To Do The Same : Nearly 60,000 units of red blood cells are transfused in patients across Sutter Health each year. Donated red blood cells do not last forever; they have a shelf-life of up to 42 days.

Most Californians blame China for COVID-19, reject racialized labels, poll finds : Critics have charged government leaders with using racial labels for the disease to shift blame away from the White House response to the pandemic ? but, in the process, encouraging hostility directed at Asians and Asian Americans.

Top Supermarket Chains Condemned for Ending COVID-19 Emergency Pay Even As Grocery Worker Deaths Increase : COVID-19 has passed for your workers, then you should be willing to admit this publicly. Until that day comes, you have a responsibility to provide your workers with essential protections and benefits, including so-called hero/appreciation/hazard pay, until this terrible threat has passed.

National Cryptologic Museum Pulling Out All Stops For Armed Forces Day : Visitors will also see Civil War reenactors demonstrate flag signaling "in the clear" and in code. The Civil Air Patrol will let visitors try their piloting skills on a flight simulator. At another table, the NSA K-9 Police unit will talk about their K-9 partners and give demonstrations. Meanwhile, the Ft. Meade's Wounded Warrior unit will let visitors try fly tying and casting.

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The Ringling Launches Virtual Programs: Visit the Museum from Home : The Ringling is a pre-eminent center for the arts, history and learning that is dedicated to bringing the past and contemporary culture to life through extraordinary visitor experiences. From its inception, The Ringling has joined the diverse visual traditions and theatrical spectacle of yesterday with the genre-defying global practitioners of the present.

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