Category: Adult Resources

Understanding the CARES Act & Its Impact

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Webinar on Understanding the CARES Act & Its Impact
Thursday, April 2 at 9:00 am ET
The $2 trillion stimulus package, “Coronavirus Aid Relief & Economic Security Act, (“CARES ACT”), was signed into law on Friday, March 27th. It authorizes the Internal Revenue Service to send $1,200 payments to millions of Americans and creates programs to disburse close to $1 trillion in business loans and guarantees to millions of large and small companies throughout the economy. This webinar will provide an overview of the CARES Act and discuss other health and tax related items as well as a Q&A session.
Presenters:
Shelly Bloom, Director of Legislative Awareness & Training
My Benefit Advisor
Richard H. Miller, Jr., CPA, President
The Harrison Group, Inc.

Third Telephone Town Hall for Chester County businesses and non-profits

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Please join the Chester County Commissioners and leaders from the Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry (CCCBI), Chester County Economic Development Council (CCEDC), the Small Business Administration (SBA), and our elected officials and staff, for a Telephone Town Hall on Thursday, April 2, 2020.  This session focuses on the new CARES Act as well as other programs available – from loans to grants to unemployment compensation.
This Telephone Town Hall will be divided into TWO SEPARATE EVENTS – one for FOR-PROFIT BUSINESSES at 11:00 a.m. and one for NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS at 2:00 p.m.
For-profit businesses 11am telephone town hall
Non-profit organization 2pm telephone town hall
PLEASE REGISTER BY 9:00 A.M. ON THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2020
Prior to the Telephone Town Hall, please review
all business information relating to COVID-19 at
Chester County – www.chesco.org
Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry – www.cccbi.org
Chester County Economic Development Council – www.ccedcpa.com
Small Business Administration – www.sba.gov
or for more information email business@chesco.org
Chester County Commissioners
Marian Moskowitz, Josh Maxwell and Michelle Kichline
If you have any questions or issues with registration or the teleconference, please contact: business@chesco.org.

Financial empowerment from CFPB

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regulates the offering and provision of consumer financial products or services under the federal consumer financial laws and educates and empowers consumers to make better informed financial decisions. Check out their website for resources about loan and debt management, saving for retirement, keeping your finances safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more.

Online high school and college resources

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Do you have high school and college kids at home, doing online coursework? The word “homework” has taken on a whole new meaning! Here are some great resources from our databases to help them get their work done:

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE:

  • Contemporary Authors – database of more than 135,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, prominent print and broadcast journalists, editors, photojournalists, syndicated cartoonists and screenwriters.
  • LitFinder (POWER Library) – literature content from full-text poems, poem citations and excerpts, full-text short stories and novels, essays, speeches, and plays. Plus biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
  • Mango Languages – the fast, easy, and most effective way to learn to speak a foreign language.

NEWS & HISTORICAL RESEARCH:

SUBJECT RESEARCH:

  • Explora – subject overviews, full text magazine articles, images and AP clips on wide variety of subjects.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library (POWER Library) – a collection of reference titles in the arts, biography, business, education, environment, general reference, history, literature, medicine, nation and world, science, and the social sciences.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library (Chester County Library) – a collection of reference titles in the arts, biography, business, education, environment, general reference, history, literature, medicine, nation and world, science, and the social sciences. Includes Business Plans Handbook Series (volumes 1-35).
  • General OneFile (POWER Library) – general-interest periodical resource. Millions of articles available in PDF and HTML full-text, supplemented by reference, newspaper, and audio content.
  • GreenFILE (POWER Library) – information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.
  • MasterFile Premier – subject overviews, full text magazine articles, an image collection and AP clips.
  • ONEFILE: High School Edition (POWER Library) – information from magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, and engaging multi-media covering science, history, and literature, political science, sports, and environmental studies.
  • Informe Académico – supports Spanish-speaking researchers with full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America.

SCIENCE RESEARCH:

  • IN CONTEXT: Environmental Studies (POWER Library) – Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources for environment and sustainability studies, materials and resources on energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population and economic development.
  • Science Reference Center (POWER Library) – full text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other reliable sources. More than 280,000 high-quality science images.

Looking for something else? Click here for a full list of our databases by subject.

Stream Free Audio Recordings of Seven Shakespeare Plays

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The Folger Shakespeare has made audio recordings of seven Folger Shakespeare plays available for free streaming until July 1 2020. Choose from Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Richard III, and Romeo and Juliet, “performed by the professional actors of Folger Theatre, in consultation with the editors of The Folger Shakespeare.”

You can also read free full text of all of Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems, learn about topics related to Shakespeare, and more.

Enjoy exploring!

Resources for BUSINESSES during the COVID-19 pandemic – PA DCED

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The PA Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) offers working capital loans that could be of assistance to businesses impacted by COVID-19. Resources and information will be posted to http://dced.pa.gov/resources as they become available.
Businesses seeking guidance from DCED can also contact its customer service resource account at ra-dcedcs@pa.gov or by calling 1-877-PA-HEALTH and selecting option 1.

How to file for Unemployment Compensation during coronavirus

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If you lost your job or your hours were cut because of coronavirus (COVID-19), you
should apply for unemployment compensation at: https://www.uc.pa.gov,
or call the statewide toll-free number: 888-313-7284.

Si has perdido su trabajo o sus horas fueron cortadas debido a coronavirus
(COVID-19), se debe aplicar por la compensación de desempleo a:
https://www.uc.pa.gov, O llamar al número de teléfono: 888-313-7284.

You may be eligible if:
• Your employer temporarily closes or goes out of business because of COVID-19;
• Your employer reduces your hours because of COVID-19;
• You have been told not to work because your employer feels you might get or
spread COVID-19;
• You have been told to quarantine or self-isolate;
• You left work because you were being asked to do unsafe things or lacked
childcare, as long as you told the employer first; or
• You were an independent contractor or self employed.

File a claim: https://www.uc.pa.gov/unemployment-benefits/file/
• File your first claim;
• Reopen a claim (if you filed for unemployment compensation benefits within the
past year, you can reopen your claim);
• File a bi-weekly claim (once every two weeks, you must report any hours you
worked, any paid time off, and pay you received. Also available through 888-255-
4728.) File a bi-weekly claim even if you haven’t received benefits yet.

(NOTE: As of March 16, 2020, the PA government recommends that you file claims online
(https://www.uc.pa.gov) for faster processing. To ask a question about your claim,
email uchelp@pa.gov (suggested due to high call volume and UC Live Chat requests).

If you need help applying, or if your claim is denied:
Contact Legal Aid of Southeastern PA (LASP) at 877-429-5994,
Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

 

PA Photos and Documents

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Interested in exploring Pennsylvania’s history through digitized historical newspapers, postcards, photographs, yearbooks, and more?

Explore thousands of digitized documents and photographs from unique collections in libraries across Pennsylvania through Power Library’s PA Photos and Documents. Visit https://powerlibrary.org/ and select “PA Photos and Documents” in the upper right-hand corner to get started.

You’ll be amazed by what you find!