WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Democratic U.S. senators said on Tuesday they were pushing for financial assistance for nonprofits struggling to provide food, shelter and other aid to Americans coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, while also helping those groups expand their payrolls at a time of soaring unemployment.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar speaks at a North Carolina Democratic Party event in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S., February 29, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Senators Amy Klobuchar and Brian Schatz are preparing a yet-to-be-introduced bill giving the Treasury Department authority to distribute block grants to more than 1,000 state and local governments, which would in turn dispatch those grants to nonprofits.
While the aid intends to help nonprofits with more than 500 employees, which were largely left out of previous coronavirus aid efforts, the Democrats’ bill would allow grants