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FIRST ON FOX: Hundreds of thousands of dollars taxpayers from President Biden’s $ 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package are associated with “under / unemployed oral history” and a study of anti-racism and indigenous and “Latin” history. Directed to their research.
The US Rescue Plan (ARP) Act, passed by the Democratic Party in March 2021 without Republican support, was claimed by the Democratic Party as an economic need to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which received $ 135 million from the plan, said in October last year, “ARP funding of $ 8.78 million to about 300 cultural education institutions to help recover from the economic impact of a pandemic. Was assigned. ” Retain and rehire workers and reopen sites, facilities, and programs. “
however, The institution was awarded a grant for the project It had virtually nothing to do with working on a pandemic recovery effort.
For example, the Oral History Association Received $ 825,000 in ARP Fund A grant project entitled “Diversification of Oral History Practices: Fellowship Program for Unemployed / Unemployed Oral History” will bring $ 60,000 each to oral history from a community that has been marginalized in this area. We have provided 11 years of fellowship. “Indigenous peoples, people of color, people with disabilities, working class people” etc.
Recipients of the $ 60,000 grant included Elizabeth “Beth” Castle. “Shawnee is an ancestral anti-racist educator” Create “a joint oral history of the fight against mineral and uranium mining in the Black Hills, the origins of the global indigenous movement, and the ongoing struggle to protect those who protect Mother Earth.”
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To another $ 60,000 grant recipient, Oral History Virginia Espino “investigates the intimate history of the working class Latin, Afloratin and indigenous peoples of Los Angeles and informs women in their daily lives. The purpose is to recover and record experiences and rebellious ideas. Those who are invisible when not stereotyped. “
Strange indigenous librarian / archivist Collet Denali Montoya-Sloan takes an oral history of the “collective emotional, intellectual and spiritual experience of creation” at the new visitor contact station at Catadin Woods and Waters National Monument. Received a $ 60,000 grant to develop Northern Maine.
The Oral History Association was previously awarded $ 50,000 in ARP funding to maintain staff status and post oral history on the web during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is just one of dozens of cultural and educational institutions that have been awarded millions of ARP funding by NEH for programs that promote social and climate justice.
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For example, NEH provided $ 50,000 in ARP funding to the Northern Mariana Islands nonprofit 500 Sails, saying it “taught indigenous canoeing and resumed a program to explore pre-colonial marine life.”
NEH also awarded the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh an ARP fund of $ 471,905 for the “in-progress development” of an existing exhibition in ancient Egypt, while the Institute of Science and History in Philadelphia said “History-seeking Multi”. Received $ 359,097 from NEH to create a platform project. The roots and lasting legacy of racial discrimination in American science and medicine. ”
Shortly before signing ARP in March 2021, Biden explained that all allocation of funds under the law was essential.
“We need Congress to pass my American bailout plan to deal with the urgent crisis, the urgency,” the president said at the time. “Now, critics say my plan is too big and costs $ 1.9 trillion. That’s too much. So let them ask. What do they make me cut? They What can I omit? “
Currently, the American Rescue Plan is closely monitored for its impact on the US economy. Inflation reached 8.6% in May, and some economists, including the former Obama administration’s economic adviser, blamed the $ 1.9 COVID-19 bailout package for overheating the economy.
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Jay Green, a senior researcher at the Heritage Foundation, described the allocation of public funds as “not conscientious.”
“The federal government has robbed hard-working taxpayers of nearly $ 1 million and left the money” left behind … undersized / unemployed oral historians, “Mr. Green said in a statement submitted to Fox News Digital. It’s rude to have them handed over to me. ” “No one was willing to pay for these oral histories voluntarily, so this is a better use of money than having taxpayers pay taxpayers for the rising costs of gas, rent, and groceries. There is no reason to decide. “”
NEH did not immediately respond to FoxNews Digital’s request for comment.