Newscast – Thursday, July 22, 2021

  • With the rise in new COVID-19 cases, Juneau city officials have decided to up the local risk level and put restrictions on some businesses,
  • Juneau’s downtown emergency shelter and soup kitchen plans to be serving all of its patrons at its new facility on the other side of town by the end of the week,
  • An expanded federal tax credit for working families rolled out last week as part of the American Rescue Plan Act.  It’s a plan experts say will cut child poverty in half across the country — including Alaska.

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