Texas is One of Only 3 States to Begin Paying Extra Unemployment Benefits
Unemployed Texans have begun receiving the extra $300 a week President Donald Trump approved earlier this month. Cisco Gamez with the Texas Workforce Commission...
Hurricane Laura May Bring Power Outages to Parts of Texas, Louisiana
Hurricane Ike caused widespread power outages that lasted for weeks. With Hurricane Laura and its 140-plus mile per hour winds barreling toward the Texas...
Divorce Rates Not What You Might Expect During Pandemic
With many families under self-quarantine since March, it’s no wonder that the subject of divorce has come up. However, the numbers are far more...
Act Now to Make Sure Your Vote Counts This November
The post office may be delaying cutbacks that had threatened to impact the on-time return of mail ballots for the November election, but the...
For Texas Students, What’s Gym Class Like Without the Gym?
While a five-year-old could trace over numbers or letters on a worksheet and hold up their work to present it to their virtual class...
As Eviction Cases Resume in Parts of Houston, Low-Income Texans Fear Losing a Place...
Hilda Ramírez says she’s never missed paying rent. Even when the pandemic started and she couldn’t work for two months in the kitchen of...
TABC Eases Rules to Allow More Texas Bars to Reopen as Restaurants
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has voted to ease restrictions that have prevented more Texas bars from being reclassified as restaurants and allowed to...
Women’s Preventive Health Care May Be Cut as State Balances COVID-19 Shortfalls
Advocates call for public discussion and input about proposed cuts to health care programs for Texas women. State agencies have been directed to cut...
Abbott: State COVID-19 Data Problems Have Been Fixed
A mess. Incomplete. Faulty. Not to be trusted. Those are the descriptions of Texas COVID-19 data in recent weeks.
The state’s positivity rate, the percentage...
Texas Parents Opting for At-Home Learning Over the Classroom
Virtual learning has begun for some school districts in Texas, so RA News asked readers in a poll about whether they were sending their...
