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ROANOKE, Va. – Roanoke city’s new fiscal year begins July 1 and city leaders just approved the new nearly $300 million dollar budget. Fiscal Year 2021′s top three priorities include: Education: $84.6 million Community safety: At $71.5 million; Police funding makes up $21.6 million of that total budget line Human services: $40.5 million How do …

A COVID-19 patient is delivered by ambulance to Wyckoff Heights Hospital in Bushwick, New York, Thursday, April 2nd, 2020. B.A. Van Sise | NurPhoto | Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic has put health care at the forefront of the nation’s economic crisis, but it has also put a lot of economic activity from it on …

MUMBAI: Preparing for the long haul amid the coronavirus outbreak, businesses are increasingly shifting to technology that enables work from home for employees. Industry experts said technologies like virtual connectivity, networking, cloud-based services coupled with VPN, security firewalls and SaaS-based communication are seeing higher spending by companies with a large section of these likely to …

Trinity Health Care of New England, which has several hospitals in Connecticut, said it is furloughing some employees, adding clinical staff and cutting pay for executives because of the COVID-19 pandemic.    “We are working tirelessly to prepare and respond to COVID-19, both in the immediate term and over the weeks and months to come. …

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Fed Chair Jerome Powell said at a Senate hearing on Wednesday that Americans are “getting nothing” in return for what the US spends on healthcare. “The outcomes are perfectly average for a first-world nation, but we spend 6 to 7% of GDP more than other countries. So it’s about the delivery. That’s a …

MUMBAI (NewsRise) — Tata Consultancy Services, India’s largest software exporter, reported a weaker-than-expected third-quarter profit as clients in banking and retail sectors curtailed technology spending. Surging investments in new internet technologies and a string of large outsourcing deals had been driving the Tata Group flagship’s growth in the past year, helping it outperform rivals. However, …

Momentum is ‘breaking Electoral Commission rules on poll spending’ by targeting the youth vote The Jeremy Corbyn-supporting group claims it has identified a loophole The commission says that any attempt to influence voters would break law The organisation Momentum incurred the biggest-ever election fine in 2017  By Claire Ellicott Political Correspondent For The Daily Mail …

More Americans are going without health coverage and the pace of spending on health care nationally is rising in part because of an Affordable Care Act tax on insurers, Trump administration officials said Thursday. A federal report from actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revealed trends that are likely to further fuel …

A little girl who nearly lost her life is now back home and getting back to a sense of normal. 8-year-old Paige Baird spent weeks in a Grand Rapids hospital recovering after she broke her neck. Just last week, the Hemlock football team and community went all out to honor Paige and her family, doing …