Assemblywoman Buttenschon Virtual Town Hall

Buttenschon addresses coronavirus concerns

Nationally and statewide as we battle through this pandemic.

Today assemblywoman marianne buttenschon held a virtual town hall where she addressed this topic and a lot more.

Newschannel2's chelsea sherrod is live in studio tonight with the story.

Good evening chelsea... good evening jason, just last week 4.4 million americans applied for unemployment nationwide, and 1.4 million and counting in new york state since the economy shut down last month.

In todays town hall, participants were loaded with questions in regards to this concern.

Assemblywoman marianne buttenschon addressed a host of topics including: individual safety in coronavirus testing, health and education funding and the 178 billion dollar new york state budget which was passed earlier this month.

-- which then brought up the question of what is considered an essential business versus non-essential?

She shared the controversy this topic has caused becuase some working folks feel like there is more of a benefit to receive state aid than to return to work marianne buttenschon: the state of new york has clear guidelines to talk about covid related layoffs or covert related rationales of why individuals are not working.

This is something that we are going to continue to work through at the state level.

To try to determine what individuals actually do deserve the funding or are in desperate need of that funding.

She reminded local businesses who have been deemed non-essential, that they can request a waiver to the state's covid-19 closures buttenschon also emphasizes the importance of following executive orders.

We have a link to this list on our website at wktv.com.

Here in studio i'm chelsea sherrod, jason back to you.

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