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USDA announced Monday it has made several changes to its Farmers.gov website to “help facilitate” employment of temporary agricultural workers.

USDA will execute a third round of its Farmers to Families Food Box Program from Sept. 1 to Oct. 31.

$100B in state stimulus * GOP goes broad on coronavirus relief * CFAP Round One payments lag

Working groups from both branches of the Legislature plan to spend $100 billion to stimulate the economy without raising taxes.

The money will go to testing, contact tracing and isolation housing.

Senate Republicans unveiled a coronavirus relief package Monday that would give the Agriculture Department broad authority to spend an additional $20 billion to compensate agricultural producers and processors for the impact of the pandemic.

Funding Friant-Kern fix * GOP pledges aid plan today * Trump trade remark draws Dem retort

The Democrat-controlled House approved a package of fiscal 2021 spending bills Friday.

Gov. Newsom on Friday announced state support for constructing temporary isolation housing for COVID-positive agricultural workers who are asymptomatic.