Minnesota's counties, cities use up federal COVID aid as needs persist

Five of the 10 children at Wendy Clark's day care left when the pandemic started, and it took a while to regain clients. The cost of cleaning supplies climbed even as she needed them more than ever. Then her family got COVID-19.

Then, shortly before she was forced to shutter her Shakopee home business for weeks of quarantine, Clark received a $4,500 grant from Scott County.

"That saved us," she said of the money that trickled down from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.

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