Jobs and Economy
Information regarding my stance on Jobs and Economy issues.
SALEM, OR (KPTV) - Gov. Kate Brown on Thursday evening announced that she will extend orders to keep daycares in Oregon closed, unless facilities are approved as emergency childcare services.
Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici said she's calling for $50 billion for providers, families and child care workers in the next coronavirus response package.
Oregon Democrat joins 387 colleagues to vote for latest $484 billion coronavirus aid plan.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici issued this statement after the House passed a $484 billion aid plan, the fourth Congress has approved to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and the economic downturn. The bill (HR 266) heads to President Donald Trump for his signature.
Momentum is building for a proposed $50 billion stimulus package for the nation's child care industry.
Proposed by advocacy groups including the National Association for the Education of Young Children in late March, members of Congress are signing on to back the measure, including Oregon Rep. Suzanne Bonamici and Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden.
In 17 states, women filed the majority of new unemployment claims in the weeks after their governors closed schools and workplaces to curb the spread of the coronavirus, a new analysis by The Fuller Project has found.
"We need more data to better understand why so many women have lost their jobs," Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-Oregon) said on Wednesday in an emailed statement.
Oregon programs supporting older adults and people with disabilities will receive more than $12 million from the Department of Health and Human Services to aid their coronavirus response.
On Thursday morning, the Small Business Administration's (SBA) small business relief fund, otherwise known as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), officially ran out of money.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) said, "Congress must act quickly to replenish SBA funds for small business relief. I'm hearing despair from businesses of all sizes, and many mom and pop shops are on the verge of shutting down."
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR-4) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1), along with 39 of their congressional colleagues, are blasting the Trump administration for continuing to garnish wages of millions of struggling student loan borrowers, despite a new law passed by Congress last month that prohibits such wage seizures during the coronavirus public health emergency.