Last spring, after Congress passed the historic CARES Act, millions of Americans breathed a sigh of relief: With a $1,200 check from the federal government, they could (for now, at least) pay for rent, and medicine, and food to sustain them during the Covid-19 quarantine.
But for thousands of Philadelphians left out of the program—like undocumented immigrants or those who file taxes with them— there was no relief . As that realization set in, Maari Porter, Mayor Kenney ’s deputy chief of staff for policy and strategic initiatives, worked to find an answer to the nagging question: What could we […]
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