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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two Chinese-American groups donated thousands of surgical and N95 masks to healthcare workers at Portland hospitals this week.
"We have an obligation to do something more for the community," said Oregon Chinese Coalition President Hongcheng Zhao. The Chinese Coalition said Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici's office helped get the shipment through customs.
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.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Here is the latest information from April 22, 2020, in Oregon and Southwest Washington in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic: No new deaths in Oregon.
Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici announced on Wednesday that Oregon programs for older adults and people with disabilities will receive an additional $12 million from the Department of Health and Human Services in order to help with the coronavirus response.
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.
The 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day looks a little different from those that came before it. Rallies have been canceled, climate strikes have been relegated to living rooms, and protests, once planned to fill the streets, have moved online.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, the only member of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis from the Pacific Northwest, will host a webinar discussion from 2 to 3 p.m. with environmental groups from throughout the region, including Climate Solutions, The Nature Conservancy and the Oregon Environmental Council.
Washington, D.C. – As the 2020 wildfire season rapidly approaches, Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1), Peter DeFazio (D-OR-4), and 78 of their congressional colleagues, are demanding that the Trump administration outline disaster preparation and recovery plans for a variety of potential disasters that may occur while the nation simultaneously addresses the coronavirus pandemic.
Arranging for a shipment of more than 12,000 N95 respirator face masks, in the middle of a pandemic, sounds next to impossible. But a tenacious Oregon nonprofit with connections in China pulled it off, and now medical personnel at five hospitals will be better protected in the ongoing battle against COVID-19.
Astoria-based WCT Marine & Construction, one of the few remaining shipwrights in the region, has secured a $573,000 federal grant to build a self-contained outside work area at North Tongue Point.