As the United States begins to grapple with an unprecedented impact to the country’s economy amid the COVID-19 crisis, financial resources for individuals and businesses are beginning to come online. Congress has passed three economic stimulus packages — the most recent totaling $2.2 trillion — allocating resources to mitigate some of the losses the economy has already suffered. Here are some of the ...
Story updated at 4:37 p.m. Friday After thousands of University of Kansas students were told in late March to pack their bags and finish the academic year online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, questions immediately arose as to whether the state's flagship university would refund the costs for housing, dining and parking plans that students purchase at the beginning of the school year. KU announced Friday that ...
Gov. Laura Kelly announced Friday that she signed a new $10 billion long-range transportation bill into law in the hopes of stimulating the state economy once the COVID-19 pandemic passes. The law will create jobs through new transportation and infrastructure improvements, and Kelly said every one of the state’s 105 counties would see at least $8 million allocated for those improvements. Economic recovery ...
Updated at 12:03 p.m. Thursday The University of Kansas on Thursday announced it would postpone the annual spring commencement ceremony to a date in late summer or early fall as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the globe. The ceremony was originally scheduled for May 17, but Chancellor Douglas Girod and Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer said the timing was simply too uncertain to bring together ...
Kansas’ Department of Labor has brought on numerous staffers from other state departments and is using Amazon Web Services to help wade through a deluge of calls from residents seeking guidance on unemployment claims, Gov. Laura Kelly said Thursday in her daily COVID-19 briefing. The department has received as many as 877,000 calls in a single day since the pandemic began and more Kansans began to lose their ...
The University of Kansas expects to suffer losses in the range of tens of millions of dollars because of the COVID-19 pandemic that forced its campuses to abruptly switch to online learning and sent all but 500 students home for the semester. Chancellor Douglas Girod made the grim prediction Thursday during a virtual town hall update on the university's operations. Those losses, he said, come from a number of ...