Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic had many effects on society.Businesses shut down; bankruptcies increased in number; unemployment soared; rents went unpaid. 1 This Comment concerns a law arising out of the economic challenges wrought by that pandemic, 2 the enforceability of one of its provisions, 3 and the constitutional questions it continues to raise. 4 In 2021, Congress passed, and President Joseph R. Biden signed into law, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).That law offered federal funding to the states in order to help them combat the lingering economic effects of the pandemic on their communities.5 Congress, however, conditioned this funding on state compliance with
Source: Seton Hall Law Review
DOI: 10.60095/skvp5473
Author: Damiano Servidio
Institutions: Seton Hall University, Washington University in St. Louis
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4410816913