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also fund new projects that focus on adding permanent housing to communities, including new permanent supContinued from page 4 portive housing, new rapid rehousing, basic necessity—the safety of a home and projects that provide transitional is essential, especially as we continue housing to households and then shift to fight the COVID-19 virus,” said HUD them to rapid rehousing. Secretary Marcia L. Fudge. “These “These awards support a variety of Continuum of Care program grants, programs that assist homeless vetercoupled with the historic resources in ans, families, youth—New Jerseans that the American Rescue Plan, will deliver simply need a hand so they can help communities the resources needed to themselves,” said Alicka Ampry-Samuensure that every person in a respective el, HUD regional administrator for New community has the equitable opportu- York and New Jersey. “This funding nity to a safe and stable home.” allows Continuums of Care to continThe 2021 awards include approxi- ue their work to end homelessness and mately $102 million for new domestic help keep our most vulnerable neighviolence support projects. The awards bors off the streets.”
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revenue for the state and are usually funneled back into highways, bridges, and transit systems, reported Spectrum News1. The Senate Democratic conference has proposed a suspension of the gas tax for the remainder of this year, between May 1 and December 31. The suspension to lower gas prices by lifting state-imposed motor fuel and sales taxes is excellent news to New Yorkers “There’s no question that Putin’s war against Ukraine is causing a significant spike in gas prices, and that it’s having an impact on working New Yorkers who don’t have other options for essential travel,”
March 24, 2022 - March 30, 2022 • 29 said Sen. Liz Krueger. “But make no mistake—that’s just a band-aid.” Krueger said that the root solution to help with the gas crisis is to break the “addiction to fossil fuel[s]” that have the country beholden to “petro-states like Russia and Saudi Arabia.” Senator Roxanne J. Persaud added that the savings from the suspension of gas taxes “would ease the financial pain experienced by drivers, many of whom rely on their vehicles to earn an income.”
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