{"id":63151,"date":"2020-09-01T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/watch-state-officials-talk-virus-relief-distribution-unemployment-payments\/"},"modified":"2020-09-01T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T21:40:00","slug":"watch-state-officials-talk-virus-relief-distribution-unemployment-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/watch-state-officials-talk-virus-relief-distribution-unemployment-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: State officials talk virus relief distribution, unemployment payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Mike Dunleavy is holding his weekly COVID-19 press conference at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Dunleavy will be joined by Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development Commissioner Julie Anderson and AIDEA Executive Director Alan Weitzner, who will discuss CARES Act funding and distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Tamika Ledbetter will discuss Federal Emergency Management Agency-approved unemployment insurance benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, it was announced that within two months additional unemployment benefits approved by the federal government would be available to some Alaskans within two months. The temporary increase of $300 will be retroactive to July when a previous federal program providing an additional $600 per week ended.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska&rsquo;s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink will also have the latest information on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/state-city-averages-trending-down-but-community-spread-remains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 cases in Alaska.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the news conference below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"ls_embed_1599006403\" src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/11909061\/events\/9283833\/player?width=560&#038;height=315&#038;enableInfoAndActivity=true&#038;defaultDrawer=&#038;autoPlay=true&#038;mute=false\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor holds <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">news<\/a> conference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":63152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63151"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}