By Carl Smith and Zoe Manzannetti, from December 3, 2021, includes “The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) allocated $350 billion to state, territorial, local and tribal governments, and in May, the Treasury Department began to make these funds available. … The first of these, an ‘Interim Report,’ which includes an overview of the services that each jurisdiction intends to provide with SLFRF dollars, was due on Aug. 31. … the reports that were available for review come from many of the country’s largest cities and counties in states severely affected by the pandemic.”