Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is extending assistance to local restaurants and small businesses by way of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, ABC reported on Wednesday (Dec. 23). A new provision passed Tuesday (Dec. 22) enables people using SNAP to spend benefits on restaurant food. A...
As the vaccine for COVID-19 is now in circulation, and the debate are underway about who will get the vaccine and when, an interesting side conversation is springing up among workers: can their workplaces compel them to get a vaccine even if they don’t want...
President-elect Joe Biden said he wants to pass another COVID-19 stimulus relief soon after he gets into office in January, according to Bloomberg. “Congress did its job this week and I can — and I must — ask them to do it again next year,”...
Logic-defying though it might be, it seems that the COVID-19 pandemic has found a way to get just a little bit worse as 2020 is coming to an end. Reports out of the U.K. indicate a new strain of the virus has emerged in parts...
A highly infectious new COVID-19 strain has caused some countries to ban U.K. travelers from entering, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The new strain, according to the British government, per WSJ, is spreading 70 percent faster than the earlier variants of the virus....
Everyone knows the famous Dr. Seuss children’s Christmas story and movie “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” The Grinch — resident sourpuss in the fictional town of Whoville — is tired of the locals’ incessant Christmas cheer and noise, and decides he’s going to do something...
The first round of COVID-19 vaccinations are underway in the United States, and businesses are growing more optimistic about the future than they have been in months. The average small- to mid-sized business (SMB) with locations on Main Street U.S.A. now expects the pandemic to...
Pharmacies inside of Meijer stores are preparing for a comprehensive vaccine administration program as pharmaceutical manufacturers progress toward approved coronavirus vaccines, according to an announcement. Meijer, the Midwestern grocery chain, is focusing on different programs to help it smoothly offer COVID-19 vaccines to a significant...
A COVID-19 vaccine has at last been approved in the U.S. for distribution. That is undeniably good news. The not so good news? Shipping delays, which were already widely forecast to be on deck in 2021 have just become a lot more likely — as...
