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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The share of Americans living in poverty rose slightly as the COVID-19 pandemi stanley cup c shook the economy last year, but massive relief payments pumped out by Congress eased hardship for many, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday.The official poverty measure showed an increase of 1 percentage point in 2020, indicating that 11.4% of Americans were living in poverty. It was the first increase in poverty after five consecutive annual declines.But a more complete supplemental measure of poverty, which stanley cup takes into account income streams such as stimulus payments, actually showed that the share of people in poverty dipped a stanley cup fter the aid was factored in.The pandemic shutdown sent tremors through the economy last year. In April alone, more than 20 million workers lost their jobs. Unemployment offices paid out a weekly average of 20 million claims last year. The economy has rebounded since, but employment is still about 5 million jobs below pre-pandemic levels.Congress passed five bipartisan COVID-19 response bills last year, totaling close to $3.5 trillion and signed into law by then-President Donald Trump. This year Democrats pushed through President Joe Bidens nearly $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan on party-line votes. Its effects are not reflected in the Census report.Though some of the federal aid last year was delayed for reasons from wrangling over costs to problems with distribution, on the whole it insulated American families from economic disaster that would have co Evpu WATCH: Senate debates voting rights legislation unlikely to pass
D stanley cup UBAI, United Arab Emirates AP 鈥?Salvagers successfully towed a Greek-flagged oil tanker ablaze for weeks after attacks by Yemen ; yeezy s Houthi rebels to a safe area without any oil spill, a European Union naval mission said Monday.The Sounion reached waters away from Yemen as the Houthis meanwhile claimed that they shot down another American-made MQ-9 Reaper drone, with video circulating online showing what appeared to be a surface-to-air missile strike and flaming wreckage strewn across the ground.The two events show the challenges still looming for the world as it tries to mitigate a monthslong campaign by the rebels over the Israel-Hamas war raging in the Gaza Strip. While the rebels allowed the Sounion to be moved, they continue to threaten ships moving through the Red Sea, a waterway that once saw $1 trillion in goods move through it a year.The EU naval mission, known as Operation Aspides, issued a statement via the social platform X announcing the ship had been moved.The Sounion has been successfully towed to a safe area without any oil spill, the EU mission said. While p jordan rivate stakeholders complete the salvage operation, Aspides will continue to monitor the situation. The Houthis had no immediate comment and it wasn ;t clear where the vessel was, though it likely was taken north away from Yemen. Salvagers still need to offload some 1 million barrels of crude oil aboard the Sounion, which officials feared could leak into the Red Sea, killing marine life and d
