The Treasury Dept, for one, is overseeing an $8 billion fund to help tribal govts stabilize. But weeks later, none of that $ has moved as the agency, which doesn’t otherwise interact with tribes, is still figuring out how to give it out.
So the SBA issued new guidance this week.
It changed nothing. And now that $ is all gone.
"They don’t know how to interact in the appropriate way with tribes and they’re just not getting the job done." huffpost.com/entry/native-a…
An April 7 analysis found that tribal casino closures had already resulted in 296K people losing their jobs and $1.5B in lost economic activity.
As of Monday, it reported more confirmed COVID-19 cases per capita than almost every U.S. state, behind only New York and New Jersey. Its number of cases surged 367% in two weeks. huffpost.com/entry/navajo-n…
“The struggle is to get their fair share of fed resources. That’s part of the reason why this is such a dangerous time for Native communities: They’ve been left behind by the fed govt.”