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Massachusetts (May 8, 2020) – Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced its plan for distributing $300 million of fisheries disaster funds appropriated in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. NOAA announced that each fishing state, territory, and tribe would receive a maximum allocation of $50 million and a minimum allocation of $1 million. Massachusetts received $28 million, the third-highest award.
Washington, D.C. - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren led the entire Massachusetts delegation in seeking information about how Walmart CEO Doug McMillon is addressing the safety and protection of workers in Walmart stores in Massachusetts, and what changes the company is implementing to ensure there are no additional outbreaks in stores across the Commonwealth.
Salem, Mass. — Today, Representative Seth Moulton (MA-06) announced five candidates from the Sixth Congressional District have accepted appointments at one of the nation’s military service academies. A video announcement from Rep. Moulton is available here.
May is National Mental Health month. We speak with Rep. Seth Moulton, who has made mental health services a focus of his work in congress.
Hello again,
I’m sending my newsletter a little early this week with a reminder: Mother’s Day is this Sunday. If you forgot, I have some good news: florists and some other non-essential businesses have gotten the green light to start to reopen in the state. Don’t rush to the store, but if you’re still searching for a gift, hopefully this gives you a few days to safely pick one up. I’m looking forward to celebrating my second Mother’s Day with Liz and Emmy.
PEABODY — Six communities in Massachusetts, one of them Peabody, have received grants to access and clean up contaminated properties under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields Program.
The grants total $2.7 million, of which Peabody will receive $300,000, according to Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass. The funds will help underserved and economically disadvantaged communities around the state in assessing and cleaning up abandoned industrial and commercial properties.
NEWBURYPORT — Rupert A. Nock Middle School eighth-graders may not be able to go to Washington, D.C., this year, but they are still learning about civics with help from local officials.
With the assistance of social studies teachers Jennifer Groskin and Kyle Boudreau, the students had a 30-minute question-and-answer session via Zoom with Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Salem, on Thursday.
Over the last week, a debate about when to reopen our country has begun in earnest. If we reopen too soon, we’ll lose the progress we’ve gained by social distancing, see a new spike in cases that overwhelms our hospital system, and inject even more uncertainty into an economy that’s buckling under the weight of the worst pandemic in a century. If we wait too long, we’ll cause more economic harm than necessary to combat the virus and more Americans will die from that fallout as well; death rates always go up due to prolonged economic hardship.
Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA), along with Representatives Richard E. Neal (D-MA-01), James P. McGovern (D-MA-02), Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA-08), William Keating (D-MA-09), Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-MA-04), Katherine Clark (D-MA-05), Seth Moulton (D-MA-06), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-07), and Lori Trahan (D-MA-03), announced that Massachusetts was awarded a total of $3,994,913 under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP).