“I’d like to, first and foremost,
recognize the heroes in our state,” Peters
said. “What we have seen from our fellow
Michiganders has been nothing short of
remarkable.”
Peters thanked the health care and
grocery store workers in their efforts to
maintain essential services. The senator
addressed COVID-19 as both a public
health crisis and an economic crisis.
Peters elaborated on his efforts
through communicating with the Federal
Emergency Management Agency to
ensure as much equipment as possible is
coming into the state. Additionally, a large
portion of the $2 trillion stimulus package
passed in Washington, D.C. is slated to go
toward health care systems around the
country.
Peters provided information about
the state’s expansion of unemployment
benefits to keep individuals and families
protected while the economy has been put
on pause. The Pandemic Unemployment
Assistance, part of the CARES Act, is a
part of the stimulus package which Peters
worked on. This expands unemployment
eligibility generally, including to small
business owners who have had to close
down during the crisis.
On the state level, Peters explained
the significant changes being made
for Michiganders currently receiving
unemployment benefits, including the
influx of applicants coming in as the
pandemic continues. Those currently
receiving unemployment assistance will
be eligible to receive an additional $600
per week through July 2020 from the
federal government. New applicants will
receive this bonus as well.
Peters stressed the importance of
supporting individuals and small business
owners in order to make restarting the
economy as painless as possible.
“We’re taking measures similar to what
is done during a natural disaster,” Peters
said. “A pandemic is every bit a natural
disaster as a hurricane, but this time it is
blowing over the whole country, not just
one region.”
The call was later opened to questions
from Michigan residents. One man from
Clinton Township asked the senator what
areas he thinks future bills will focus on.
Peters said he wants to monitor what
has already been passed and evaluate
where additional resources would be
necessary. However, Peters said some
sort of assistance will be necessary for
rural hospitals as well as educational
institutions in the state as the number of
COVID-19 patients rises.
Another resident from Burton asked
if the virus would delay the November
election. Peters said every effort would
be made to make sure voting continues as
planned and he imagines voting would be
made possible for all Michiganders from
home through absentee ballots.
The call ended as one resident from
Shelby Township asked about communal
efforts to help provide personal protective
equipment to health care workers.
“I know a lot of us have sewing
machines and 3D printers we are ready
to use,” Justin said. “Are there any
existing programs out there currently
organizing efforts for people to help make
and distribute PPE (personal protective
equipment)?”
Peters acknowledged the numerous
high school robotics teams using their
skills to make masks as well as the role of
Michigan auto companies in producing
ventilators.
He
said
the
Michigan
Economic
Development
Corporation
is working to organize people who will
be able to help supply more personal
protective equipment in the short-run.
“Eventually, the manufacturing muscle
of this economy will be able to work
faster,” Peters said. “But it takes time.”
Celene Philip can be reached at celenep@
umich.edu.
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The University of Michigan Central
Student Government’s 10th Assembly
was sworn in over BlueJeans by third
year Law student Henry Zurn Tuesday
night. The meeting was the first for
the
candidates
for
executive
and
representative positions elected in last
week’s online voting.
Public Policy junior Amanda Kaplan
and LSA junior Sav Nandigama, the
new president and vice president, spoke
about their vision for CSG in the next
year after being sworn into their roles.
Kaplan and Nandigama called for the
newly elected Assembly members to
set aside party differences and unite to
serve the student body.
“Parties are a great mechanism as far
as providing some equity in the process
and helping us achieve the goal of being
elected, but at the end of the day, they’re
not useful in the Assembly, because they
get in the way of our individual decision-
making,” Nandigama said. “We should
never use parties as the deciding factor in
how we vote or what we vote for, because
that’s not what we were elected to do.”
Kaplan
introduced
motions
to
reallocate funds the Ninth Assembly
promised to both student organizations
and the Dean of Students’ Emergency
Fund. The money allocated to the Office
of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs and the
Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness
Center from CSG’s account was not
taken out before remaining funds were
allocated to support students during the
COVID-19 outbreak. Kaplan said these
motions would ensure the funds CSG had
promised were properly allocated.
“When COVID-19 happened, the
previous president allocated all the
money in the executive discretionary
account to the Dean of Students’
Emergency Fund and forgot that we had
previously allocated certain amounts of
money to different student organizations,
and those transactions never got made,”
Kaplan said. “This is money that we owe
to people that we can’t take out of the
Dean of Students’ Fund because that’s
unfair to students who are currently
using that money.”
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