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Audit: Newsom administration favored large counties over rural with COVID-19 relief

01/20/21 7:05 AM By Brad Hooker
A new state audit faults Newsom's finance department for nearly doubling the amount of federal coronavirus relief funds it sent to just a handful of the state’s largest counties.
KEYWORDS California Covid relief California State Auditor Coronavirus relief package Department of Finance equitable funding rural counties rural-urban divide
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Brad Hooker
Sacramento Bureau Chief, Agri-Pulse West

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